Golden Parasol: A Daughter’s Memoir of Burma - Softcover
‘Die, and it’s the vile earth; live, and it’s the golden parasol,’
went the old Burmese saying. Why not aim for the pinnacle
with everything they had?
The vile earth would be theirs soon enough.
A year after Burma’s military coup in 1962, Ed Law-Yone, daredevil proprietor of the influential newspaper, The Nation, was arrested and his newspaper shut down.
Eventually, his teenaged daughter Wendy was also imprisoned before managing to escape the country.
Ed spent five years as a political prisoner, but the moment he was freed he set about trying – unsuccessfully – to stage a revolution, and never gave up hope for the restoration of democracy in Burma. Exiled in America, he died disappointed – though not before entrusting to his daughter Wendy his papers and unpublished memoirs: of a career that had spanned the full sweep of modern Burmese history – from colonial rule to independence; from the era of parliamentary democracy to the military coup that would usher in decades of totalitarian rule.
Now, some forty years later, as Burma enters another period of transition, Wendy Law-Yone has honoured her father’s legacy by setting his remarkable career in a larger, more personal, story. The result is Golden Parasol, a unique portrait of a patriot, his family, and a nation whose vicissitudescontinue to intrigue the world.
went the old Burmese saying. Why not aim for the pinnacle
with everything they had?
The vile earth would be theirs soon enough.
A year after Burma’s military coup in 1962, Ed Law-Yone, daredevil proprietor of the influential newspaper, The Nation, was arrested and his newspaper shut down.
Eventually, his teenaged daughter Wendy was also imprisoned before managing to escape the country.
Ed spent five years as a political prisoner, but the moment he was freed he set about trying – unsuccessfully – to stage a revolution, and never gave up hope for the restoration of democracy in Burma. Exiled in America, he died disappointed – though not before entrusting to his daughter Wendy his papers and unpublished memoirs: of a career that had spanned the full sweep of modern Burmese history – from colonial rule to independence; from the era of parliamentary democracy to the military coup that would usher in decades of totalitarian rule.
Now, some forty years later, as Burma enters another period of transition, Wendy Law-Yone has honoured her father’s legacy by setting his remarkable career in a larger, more personal, story. The result is Golden Parasol, a unique portrait of a patriot, his family, and a nation whose vicissitudescontinue to intrigue the world.
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"Captivating" (Asian Review of Books)
"Magnificent... Delivers a riveting experience" (South China Morning Post)
"Beautifully written with a keen sense of humour, the book is bound to be a classic" (Asia Times)
"Gorgeous: vivid, precise and awash in remembered sunlight" (Independent on Sunday)
"Sad, extraordinary and inspiring" (Wanderlust)
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"Magnificent... Delivers a riveting experience" (South China Morning Post)
"Beautifully written with a keen sense of humour, the book is bound to be a classic" (Asia Times)
"Gorgeous: vivid, precise and awash in remembered sunlight" (Independent on Sunday)
"Sad, extraordinary and inspiring" (Wanderlust)
A unique portrait of Burma and a powerfully evocative memoir of a daughter and her father
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- PublisherVintage
- Publication date2014
- ISBN 10 0099555999
- ISBN 13 9780099555995
- BindingPaperback
- Edition number1
- Number of pages320
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