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Book Reviews

Burmese Lessons: A True Love Story by Karen Connelly

9 December 2010

I have recently reviewed Burmese Lessons: A True Love Story by Karen Connelly in the New York Times. Karen Connelly’s passionate and poetic memoir begins with her arrival in Burma in 1996 at the age of 27. Brash, naïve and bubbling with confidence, she is enchanted by the country, but also determined to “catch at [...]

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Dreaming in Chinese by Deborah Fallows

27 September 2010

I have just reviewed Dreaming in Chinese by Deborah Fallows in the New York Times. When I used to ask my mother about her family village in China, she always said it was three hours from Canton by bus. A hundred years ago, when my great-grandfather left China for good, that couldn’t have been far, [...]

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