Historical fiction books from Myanmar
Recommended historical fiction books (1)
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If you are into historical fiction here are some historical fiction books from Myanmar for the next part of the Read Around The World Challenge.
1.
Night Birds and Other Stories by Khet Mar EN
Description:
Since the age of 19, Khet Mar has been persecuted by the Burmese government enduring arrests, torture, incarcerations, and threats to her life. She fought back through her writing, political activism, and social work until she was forced to flee the country in 2009. Her novel Night Birds was banned in 1993, her nonfiction piece Life Row blacklisted in 2007. The same year, the government censored several paragraphs of Night Flow, highlighted in this book.