From the Land of Green Ghosts. A Burmese Odyssey.

First edition. 8vo. Pp. xvi, 304. Black cloth boards, lettered in silver to spine; pink endpapers. Frontis., b/w line illus., maps, pls., index.

Awarded the 2002 Kiriyama Prize for works which promote understanding of the Pacific Rim nations. The true story of a Burmese hill tribesman, a student at Mandalay University, his fight against the murderous regime and his final escape to England. In 1991 Khoo Thwe enrolled in Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge where he received his BA in English literature in 1995. "A political statement as well as a poetic lament, the book is a true work of art." –Financial Times