num_pages: 224
description: An entrancing autobiography of a childhood spent in Burma, by the daughter of an Irish colonial administrator and his Burmese wife. During her childhood, the author was shuttled between the idyll of her peasant grandparents' bamboo house and the fierce discipline of Italian nuns at a convent school, until the Japanese army arrived and life changed forever. No index. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
language: English
title: A World Overturned: A Burmese Childhood, 1933-1947
titlecomplete: A World Overturned: A Burmese Childhood, 1933-1947
ratings_count: 17
publisher: Constable and Company Ltd