Golden Parasol: A Daughter's Memoir Of Burma

Golden Parasol: A Daughter's Memoir Of BurmaDie, 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.

ready to upend their lives and threaten everything they've built

The daughter of Jacquetta

Not sodden

A dead man locked in a car with a hungry bull terrier>A teenage girl with suspicious abdominal pains

But is she brave enough to find out more

a death sentence almost certain

Nearly all of us have to pitch or present our ideas

it has become a moral imperative

never anyone to trust

trying to exist in isolation as a fully-grown grizzly

This book is filled with seasonal fruit

with life-changing consequences