num_pages: 336
description: Kiriyama Pacific Rim Book PrizeAn emotionally charged and lyrically written memoir about a remarkable odyssey from a Burmese hill tribe and a land torn by civil war to Cambridge University.It was during a tour on a trip through Burma that John Casey, a Cambridge don, first met Pascal Khoo Thwe, who was moonlighting in a Chinese restaurant to support himself as a student at Mandalay University. Thwe was born a member of the Padaung tribe in Burma where political turmoil and poverty are ever-present realities.Thwe left school to join the student rebels during the great insurrection of 1988, but remained in touch with Casey. He was forced to flee the country. It was his connection to Casey that enabled him to emigrate to England where he was admitted to Cambridge University. Despite his humble beginnings and the oppression he faced, Pascal Khoo Thwe brings us into a world forgotten by the West, but one that readers will not soon forget.
language: English
title: From the Land of Green Ghosts: A Burmese Odyssey
titlecomplete: From the Land of Green Ghosts: A Burmese Odyssey
genres: Asian Literature, History, Cultural, Travel, Asia, Biography Memoir, War, Biography, Memoir, Nonfiction
ratings_count: 1695
awards: awardedAt: 1230796800000
name: Prix du Meilleur Livre Étranger
category: Essai, awardedAt: 1009872000000
name: Kiriyama Prize
category: Nonfiction
publisher: Harper Perennial