{"product_id":"9781910198308","title":"Burma's Spring","description":"'Burma Spring is an extraordinary vox pop exercise that puts you in touch with what people in Burma are thinking and feeling. This is reportage at its best, listening-post reportage where the reporter disappears and all you can hear are Burmese voices. It's a remarkable achievement.'\u003cbr\u003eRSAA Journal of Asian Affairs\u003cp\u003e\"A vibrant and comprehensive depiction ... an affectionate, colourful book.\" \u003cbr\u003eRt. Hon. John Bercow\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"An extraordinarily beautiful, comprehensive and compelling story ... essential reading for anyone interested in understanding Burma today.\" \u003cbr\u003eBenedict Rogers, author of Burma: A Nation at the Crossroads\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Burma's Spring is like nothing else written about Burma ... compelling, charming and unique. No other book I know of has got under the skin of such a wide variety of Burmese, bringing them to life on the page.\" \u003cbr\u003ePeter Popham, author of The Lady and the Peacock, the Life of Aung San Suu Kyi\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBurma's Spring documents the struggles of ordinary people made extraordinary by circumstance. Rosalind Russell, a British journalist who came to live in Burma with her family, witnessed a time of unprecedented change in a secretive country that had been locked under military dictatorship for half a century.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHer memoir carries the reader through a turbulent era of uprising, disaster and political awakening with a vivid retelling of her encounters as an undercover reporter.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFrom the world famous democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi to the broken-hearted domestic worker Mu Mu, a Buddhist monk to a punk, a palm reader to a girl band, these are stories of tragedy, resilience and hope - woven together in a vivid portrait of a land for so long hidden from view.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Thistle Publishing","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47059473629424,"sku":"9781910198308","price":14.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781910198308_p0.jpg?v=1763626495","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781910198308","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}