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Winner of the 2002 Kiriyama Prize in Nonfiction In 1988 Dr John Casey, a Cambridge don visiting Burma, was told of a waiter in Mandalay with a passion for the works of James Joyce. Intrigued by this unlikely story, he visited the restaurant, where he met Pascal Khoo Thwe. The encounter was to change both their lives.Pascal grew up as a member of the tiny, remote Kayan Padaung tribe, famous for their 'giraffenecked' women. The Padaung practiced a combination of ancient animist and Buddhist customs mixed with the Catholicism introduced by Italian missionaries. Theirs was a dream culture, a world in which ancestors were worshipped and ghosts were a constant presence. Pascal was the first member of his community ever to study English at university. But in Burma, English books were rare, and independent thought was discouraged. Photocopies of the few approved texts would be passed from student to student, while tuition consisted of lecturers reciting essays that the students learned by rote.Within a few months of his chance meeting with Dr Casey, Pascal's world lay in ruins. Successive economic crises brought about by Burma's military dictatorship meant he had to give up his studies. The regime's repression grew more brutal, and Pascal's student-lover, who had become involved in the movement for democracy, was arrested, raped and finally murdered by the armed forces. Pascal fled to the jungle, becoming a guerrilla fighter in the life-or-death struggle against the government and seeing many of his friends and comrades die in battle. At a moment of desperation, he remembered the Englishman he had met in Mandalay and wrote him a letter, with little expectation of ever receiving a reply.Miraculously, the letter reached its destination on the other side of the world. Not only that, it would lead to Pascal's being rescued from the jungle and enrolling to study English at Cambridge University, the first Burmese tribesman ever to do so.From the Land of Green Ghosts is the autobiographical tale of a remarkable triumph of hope over despair, and of an encounter between two very different worlds. Hauntingly and poetically written, it unforgettably evokes the realities of life in modern-day Burma and one young man's long journey to freedom despite almost unimaginable odds. The Asahi Shimbun The Asahi Shimbun is widely regarded for its journalism as the most respected daily newspaper in Japan The English version offers selected articles from Kayan people (Myanmar) - Wikipedia Women of the Kayan tribes identify themselves by their forms of dress Women of the Kayan Lahwi tribe are well known for wearing neck rings brass coils that are PGA authors N-Z - Project Gutenberg Australia N - Get HELP about accessing ebooks : Jan NERUDA (1835-1909) Vampire--Text--ZIP--HTML; E (Edith) NESBIT (1858-1924) Wet Magic--Text--HTML; John Charrington's Wedding TicketsInventory Tickets : Buy Tickets for Concerts Tickets for Concerts Sports Theatre and More Online at TicketsInventorycom PageInsider - Information about all domains Own a website? Manage your page to keep your users updated View some of our premium pages: googlecom yelpcom yahoocom microsoftcom Upgrade to a Premium Page Myanmar (Burma) Tours & Travel Intrepid Travel GB Visitors can expect to be dazzled by shimmering cities of gilded temples enlivened by emerald green landscapes and humbled by the warm smiles of gracious villagers Film Slant Magazine Slant Magazine's film section is your gateway to some of the web's most incisive and biting film criticism and features Movie Reviews - The New York Times The Wedding Plan NYT Critics Pick; PG; Comedy Romance; Directed by Walt Whitman: Song of Myself - DayPoems To link to this poem put the URL below into your page: a href="daypoemsnet/poems/1900html"Song of Myself by Walt Whitman/a Plain for Printing Video News - CNNcom North Korea is making a new accusation against the US and South Korea claiming that they are behind an assassination plot CNN's Barbara Starr reports
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