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The Nylon Hotel: Buying Rubies and Following the Circus in Myanmar

The Nylon Hotel: Buying Rubies and Following the Circus in Myanmar

Ehrlich, Daniel

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Biographies GeneralHistorical FiguresSoutheast Asian History

Publisher Price: $16.95

PREORDER - Expected ship date January 5, 2027

ISBN10: 6164510961
ISBN13: 9786164510968
Publisher: River Books
Published: Jan 5 2027
Pages: 164
Language: English
Using the Nylong hotel in Mandalay as his base for his travels, the author presents a series of vignettes of the extraordinary people and characters who retain their energy and enthusiasm for life, even while living under a military dictatorship.

Cycling Myanmar, Mandalay, and the Nylon Hotel over three decades, Daniel Ehrlich opens a series of windows onto people and places held captive in time. Through beautifully crafted vignettes of coming and going, meeting and waiting, we are invited to get to know a prince among sidecar drivers, and anglophile living on the banks on the Irrawaddy, a long-haired freedom fighting musician, an octogenarian English teacher who might have been a princess, and the inventor who built a helicopter out of teak. Each story, in its own way, reflects the tragedy of a country trapped under military rule. But each contains human possibilities, fragile hope for the future, and the connections to deeper traditions in which darkness is a necessary counterpart to the light.

Ehrlich writes with warmth, insight, and a good deal of humour. This book should be required reading for all who are friends of Burma and who wish a better and free future for the Burmese people. Richard Axelby, SOAS, University of London

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