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On the Road to Mandalay: Tales of Ordinary People
Paperback
Series: Asian Portraits
Biographies GeneralHistorical FiguresSoutheast Asian History
ISBN13: 9789748299259
Publisher: Orchid Press
Published: Sep 1 2019
Pages: 284
Weight: 0.70
Height: 0.55 Width: 5.83 Depth: 8.27
Language: English
Inspired by Chicago journalist Studs Terkel's accounts of the hopes and dreams of ordinary Americans, Rangoon-based writer Mya Than Tint introduces us to 34 of Burma's fifty four million 'ordinary people', the a-nya-ta-ra. As he travelled through Burma on literary lecture tours in the late 1980s, he encountered porters, sailors, fortune-tellers, waitresses, artists and petty criminals 'on the road to Mandalay'. Their stories were published in Burma in Kalya magazine. Himself a prolific translator into Burmese of eastern and western classical works of literature, this is Mya Than Tint's first major work to have been translated into English--an inspiring read and itself now a classic.
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