{"product_id":"from-the-land-of-green-ghosts-a-burmese-odyssey-9780060505233","title":"From the Land of Green Ghosts: A Burmese Odyssey","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\"A page-turner...deeply moving, beautifully written, and most inspiring. When I reached the last page, my heart was filled with joy and gratitude.\" -- Nien Chang, author of Life and Death in Shanghai\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAn emotionally charged and lyrically written memoir about a remarkable odyssey from a Burmese hill tribe and a land torn by civil war to Cambridge University.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIt was during a tour on a trip through Burma that John Casey, a Cambridge don, first met Pascal Khoo Thwe, who was moonlighting in a Chinese restaurant to support himself as a student at Mandalay University. Thwe was born a member of the Padaung tribe in Burma where political turmoil and poverty are ever-present realities.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThwe left school to join the student rebels during the great insurrection of 1988, but remained in touch with Casey. He was forced to flee the country. It was his connection to Casey that enabled him to emigrate to England where he was admitted to Cambridge University. Despite his humble beginnings and the oppression he faced, Pascal Khoo Thwe brings us into a world forgotten by the West, but one that readers will not soon forget.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Harper Perennial\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 12\/02\/2003\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780060505233\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 304\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.63lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.02h x 5.26w x 0.81d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eReview Citations: \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e 12\/21\/2003 pg. 24\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eNew York Review of Books\u003c\/i\u003e 06\/05\/2014 pg. 54\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Pascal Khoo Thwe","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42924765151413,"sku":"9780060505233","price":16.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0473\/0804\/6492\/products\/img_3505166f-de1b-4991-b7f6-e225e309a7a4.jpg?v=1687837784","url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/from-the-land-of-green-ghosts-a-burmese-odyssey-9780060505233","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}