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On the Road to Mandalay: Tales of Ordinary People

By Mya Than Tint, Ohnmar Khin (Translator), U Win Pe (Illustrator)
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By Mya Than Tint, Ohnmar Khin (Translator), U Win Pe (Illustrator)
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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 tran...

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