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From The Land of Green Ghosts: A Burmese Odyssey

From The Land of Green Ghosts: A Burmese Odyssey

Khoo Thwe, Pascal

Paperback

Biographies GeneralGeneral World HistorySoutheast Asian History

ISBN10: 0007116829
ISBN13: 9780007116829
Publisher: Flamingo
Published: Mar 3 2003
Pages: 330
Weight: 0.64
Height: 0.82 Width: 5.06 Depth: 7.81
Language: English

The astonishing story of a young man's upbringing in a remote tribal village in Burma and his journey from his strife-torn country to the tranquil quads of Cambridge.

In lyrical prose, Pascal Khoo Thwe describes his childhood as a member of the Padaung hill tribe, where ancestor worship and communion with spirits blended with the tribe's recent conversion to Christianity. In the 1930s, Pascal's grandfather captured an Italian Jesuit, mistaking him for a giant or a wild beast; the Jesuit in turn converted the tribe. (The Padaung are famous for their 'giraffe women' - so-called because their necks are ritually elongated with ornamental copper rings. Pascal's grandmother had been exhibited in a touring circus in England as a 'freak'.)

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