Irrawaddy Tango: A Novel - Softcover

Law-Yone, Wendy

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0810151421 ISBN 13: 9780810151420

Verlag: Northwestern University Press, 2003

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Book by LawYone Wendy

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"In recounting this life of leaping from frying pan to fire and back, Tango's narration is as stylish, restrained, violent, and full of thrilling juxtapositions and reversals as that dance." - New Yorker; "[T]here is no doubt that [Irrawaddy Tango] is the work of a very fine writer indeed." - Washington Post Book World

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Irrawaddy Tango, a pepper-tongued, tango-dancing Asian beauty, rises from a village girlhood to become the wife of her country's dictator and then a leader of the rebel forces arrayed against him. Tango captures the attention of an ambitious colonel - the self-proclaimed Supremo - while dancing at a talent contest. Once married, she is forced to endure the cruelties of a ruthless and foolish husband, is kidnapped by rebel forces, recaptured and brutally punished by her husband's military clique and eventually exiled to America. Her return to the fictional Republic of Daya (clearly Burma) brings about the destruction of her husband and his dictatorship. "Irrawaddy Tango" tells the unsettling tale of powerful men and powerless women. It also evokes the harshness of exile, revealing the misunderstandings between East and West and by doing so captures the intensity of living between the two.

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• Verlag: Northwestern University Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2003
• ISBN 10: 0810151421
• ISBN 13: 9780810151420
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Anzahl der Seiten: 304