Book description
Drawing both on his own family's stories and his years of hands-on
political experience, Thant Myint-U has written an illuminating
account of how Burma's rich past informs its violent present, and of
how the world might transform the country's future. This is the story
of modern Burma, and a narrative that is by turns lyrical, dramatic,
and appalling.
Thant Myint-U was educated at Harvard and Cambridge and was a
Fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge from 1995 to 1999. He has also
served on United Nations peacekeeping operations, in Cambodia and the
former Yugoslavia, and was more recently the head of policy planning
in the UN's Department of Political Affairs. He is also the author of
The Making of Modern Burma.
