by Pascal Khoo Thwe · Harper Perennial · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780007116829
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«From the Land of Green Ghosts: A Burmese Odyssey» is the autobiography of Pascal Khoo Thwe, published by Harper Perennial in paperback (320 pages, in English).
The author recalls his childhood in a Padaung tribe village, where ancestor worship and communication with spirits coexisted with the recently adopted Christianity of the community. His fascination with the English language, nurtured by the BBC, leads him to Mandalay, where he meets Cambridge professor John Casey. Military repression in the 1980s forces him to join the guerrilla; with Casey's help he manages to leave the country and begin a new life in Cambridge.
The work received the Kiriyama Prize (2002) and the Prix du Meilleur Livre Étranger (2009).
For readers of memoirs and non-fiction interested in the contemporary history of Burma and in stories of survival and personal transformation.
