Our Home in Myanmar (Four Years in Yangon) by Jessica Mudditt
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Signed Copies of Our Home in Myanmar are exclusively available on Banyan Canopy for our US & Canada customers.
Overview
Our Home in Myanmar by Jessica Mudditt is a memoir about the Australian journalist's four years in Yangon.
Australian journalist Jessica Mudditt and her Bangladeshi husband Sherpa arrive in Yangon in 2012, just as the military junta is beginning to relax its ironclad grip on power. It is a high-risk atmosphere; a life riddled with chaos and confusion as much as it is with wonder and excitement.
Whether she is covering a speech by Aung San Suu Kyi, getting dangerously close to cobras, directing cover shoots with Burmese models, or scaling Bagan’s thousand-year-old temples, Jessica is entranced and challenged by a country undergoing rapid change.
But as the historic elections of 2015 draw near, it becomes evident that the road to democracy is full of twists, turns and false starts and challenges their belief that they have found a home in Myanmar.
Publisher - Thorpe-Bowker (March 5, 2021)
Description
Signed Copies of Our Home in Myanmar are exclusively available on Banyan Canopy for our US & Canada customers.
Overview
Our Home in Myanmar by Jessica Mudditt is a memoir about the Australian journalist's four years in Yangon.
Australian journalist Jessica Mudditt and her Bangladeshi husband Sherpa arrive in Yangon in 2012, just as the military junta is beginning to relax its ironclad grip on power. It is a high-risk atmosphere; a life riddled with chaos and confusion as much as it is with wonder and excitement.
Whether she is covering a speech by Aung San Suu Kyi, getting dangerously close to cobras, directing cover shoots with Burmese models, or scaling Bagan’s thousand-year-old temples, Jessica is entranced and challenged by a country undergoing rapid change.
But as the historic elections of 2015 draw near, it becomes evident that the road to democracy is full of twists, turns and false starts and challenges their belief that they have found a home in Myanmar.
Publisher - Thorpe-Bowker (March 5, 2021)
Description
Signed Copies of Our Home in Myanmar are exclusively available on Banyan Canopy for our US & Canada customers.
Overview
Our Home in Myanmar by Jessica Mudditt is a memoir about the Australian journalist's four years in Yangon.
Australian journalist Jessica Mudditt and her Bangladeshi husband Sherpa arrive in Yangon in 2012, just as the military junta is beginning to relax its ironclad grip on power. It is a high-risk atmosphere; a life riddled with chaos and confusion as much as it is with wonder and excitement.
Whether she is covering a speech by Aung San Suu Kyi, getting dangerously close to cobras, directing cover shoots with Burmese models, or scaling Bagan’s thousand-year-old temples, Jessica is entranced and challenged by a country undergoing rapid change.
But as the historic elections of 2015 draw near, it becomes evident that the road to democracy is full of twists, turns and false starts and challenges their belief that they have found a home in Myanmar.
Publisher - Thorpe-Bowker (March 5, 2021)
Product Details
Jessica Mudditt
Jessica Mudditt was born in Melbourne, Australia, and currently lives in Sydney. She spent ten years working as a journalist in London, Bangladesh, and Myanmar, before returning home in 2016.
As Myanmar began the transition from dictatorship to democracy, Jessica joinned The Myanmar Times, and later worked at the British Embassy and the United Nations. During the historic elections of 2015, she was the first foreign editor at the state-run newspaper. Jessica currently lives in Sydney.
Her articles have been published by the BBC, The Economist Intelligence Unit, GQ, and Marie Claire, among others. Our Home in Myanmar is her first book.
"An honest, detailed, and well-structured account of the personal and political."
Kirkus Reviews
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"This book captures an extraordinary period in Myanmar’s tragically short-lived transition to democracy... This is the first book in English to recount what it felt like to live through that ecstatic period." AUSTRALIA'S FORMER AMBASSADOR TO MYANMAR, NICHOLAS COPPEL, IN AUSTRALIAN BOOK REVIEW
"Our Home in Myanmar is a delightful read, both an accessible introduction to Myanmar and a candid behind-the-scenes look at journalism in a developing country." JOHN GRANT ROSS, BOOKISH ASIA
"Burma-watchers will find it nostalgic and insightful, while democracy-watchers and those concerned about press freedoms, will find information and substance. Anyone with an interest in South Asia and Southeast Asia should read this perceptive and illuminating book." KEITH LYONS, BORDERLESS MAGAZINE
"It's a terrific memoir of a place and time unknown to many Australians. Very much recommended!" WENDY HARMER, ABC RADIO SYDNEY"Reading Jessica's book is like sitting down with a friend over a few glasses of wine... For a beautifully paced, enlightening and empathetic account of what it took to get by in this beguiling, but sadly blighted land, with love and some laughs along the way, I truly recommend you spend time with Jessica." JAMES PETERS, BETTER READ THAN DEAD
"Our Home In Myanmar is a complex love letter to the people, customs, and antiquities of an alluring country on the precipice of historic transformation. Jessica Mudditt deftly brings home the absurdity, humour, danger and enchantment of life in Myanmar in a time of change." JEREMY FERNANDEZ, ABC SYDNEY NEWS ANCHOR
"Anyone interested in Southeast Asia should read this perceptive and illuminating book." KEITH LYONS, BORDERLESS MAGAZINE
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