{"product_id":"9786167339559","title":"Burma's Spring: Real Lives in Turbulent Times","description":"\u003cp\u003e\"Rosalind Russell has written an extraordinarily beautiful, comprehensive and compelling story of Burma in a remarkably human way - essential reading for anyone interested in understanding Burma today.\" Benedict 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 sking of such a wide variety of Burmese, bringing them to life on the page.\" Peter 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 militay dictatorship for half a century.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThrough her remarkable encounters as an undercover reporter, she unearthed the real-life stories of a rich array of characters and followed their fortunes over a tumultuous era of uprising, disaster and political reform.\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, reilience and hope-woven together in a vivid portrait of a land for so long hidden from view.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"River Books Press Dist A C","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47044582342896,"sku":"9786167339559","price":15.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9786167339559_p0.jpg?v=1769889635","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9786167339559","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}