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"A beautiful and poignant story of one family during the most violent and turbulent years of world history, Miss Burma is a powerful novel of love and war, colonialism and ethnicity, and the ties of blood. Miss Burma tells the story of modern-day Burma through the eyes of Benny and Khin, husband and wife, and their daughter Louisa. After attending school in Calcutta, Benny settles in Rangoon, then part of the British Empire, and falls in love with Khin, a woman who is part of a long-persecuted ethnic minority group, the Karen. World War II comes to Southeast Asia, and Benny and Khin must go…
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7 editions- Other · English · 2019Grove/Atlantic, Incorporated · 368 pages · 9781611855074
- Other · English · 2018Grove/Atlantic, Incorporated · 368 pages · 9781611856248
- Other · English · 2018Grove/Atlantic, Incorporated · 9781611859409
- Other · English · 2018Grove/Atlantic, Incorporated · 368 pages · 9781611855012
- Other · English · 2018Grove/Atlantic, Incorporated · 368 pages · 9780802127686
- Other · English · 2017Grove Press · 355 pages · 9780802126450
FictionKaren (Southeast Asian people)Racially mixed familiesFamiliesHistoryFiction, family lifeFiction, historicalNew York Times reviewed