My gun was as tall as me
By: by Toni Davidson
Publisher: Freight
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Glasgow
Language: eng
Number of pages: 256
ISBN-13: 9781908754080; 9780956613592
Subjects: Literary; General; Fiction; FICTION
Description: An unflinching, utterly gripping examination of state oppression in Burma and the physical, emotional, and moral consequences for both ordinary Burmese and those from the West attempting to provide aidHigh in the Alps, Tuvol, the son of a great European humanitarian, crawls into a snow hole in a deliberate attempt to die. On the other side of the world, in the stifling heat of a South East Asian jungle, twin boys, Lynch and Leerrobbed of speech at birth by a mother unhinged by atrocityawait yet another military assault on their decimated village. Saved from suicide by Etaine, an NGO worker, Tuvol leaves his dysfunctional family, following her to South East Asia to try and find purpose helping those maimed, orphaned, and displaced by a brutal regime. As Tuvol and the twins both flee their very different personal traumas, fate will draw them together in a way that changes all three lives forever. At once tender and harrowing, this meticulously researched, epic story of family disintegration, state-sponsored persecution, and the irreconcilable compromises of delivering aid is truly unforgettable.
Table of contents: title: Cover; Title page; Copyright page; About the Author; Dedication page; Epigraph page; Contents; Prologue; Espirit and Tuvol; Ruess Field Notes #4; Ree Paw; Ruess Field Notes #3; Verlaine; Ruess Field Notes #2; Tuvol in the Tropics; Ruess Field Notes #1; Hotel; Somewhere to go; Tuvol and Introducing Dominique; The Rains Come; Jaffe; Village Life and Death; In the Snow; Verlaine's Return; Lynch, Leer and friends in the forest; Ruess Field Notes # 7; Lew Kwin and Tuvol; Dominique; Esta; It Changes Now; Ruess Field Notes # 6; Then Khin; In the Heat; Ruess Field Notes # 5; The Clinic; The Lesson.; title: LaweThe Forest of Things; Ruess Field Notes # 8; Tuvol; Esta; Tuvol; Dominique; Ruess Field Notes # 15; Dominique; Lynch; Ruess Field Notes # 14; Stand Off; Ruess Field Notes # 13; Dominique; Lynch and Leer; Dominique; Ruess Field Notes # 12; Tuvol; In the Forest Again; Ruess Field Notes # 11; IDPs; Ruess Field Notes # 10; Mae Rot; Tuvol; Ruess Field Notes # 9; Tuvol and Dominique; Verlaine in Mae Rot; Esta; Coming in from the cold; Lynch and Leer; Dominique; At Home in the Cold; Esta and Tuvol; Suddenly No One Believed; Dominique and Lew Kwin; Tuvol; Lynch, Leer and Esta; Tuvol.; title: Dominique and RuessLynch and Leer; Tuvol and Esta; Esta and Carmisle; Lynch and Leer in Tuvol's world; Dominique and Tuvol; Tuvol; Lynch and Leer; Acknowledgements.