Dancing In Cambodia At Large In Burma [Illustrated] [Hardcover]

Amitav Ghosh (Author)

Product Details

• Hardcover: 114 pages
• Publisher: Ravi Dayal Pub (June 30, 1998)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 8175300175
• ISBN-13: 978-8175300170
• Product Dimensions: 8.4 x 5.7 x 0.5 inches
• Shipping Weight: 12 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,278,682 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
  • #50 in Books > Travel > Asia > Myanmar
  • #95 in Books > Travel > Asia > Cambodia

More About the Author

Amitav Ghosh was born in Calcutta in 1956 and raised and educated in Bangladesh, Sri Lanka, Iran, Egypt, India, and the United Kingdom, where he received his Ph.D. in social anthropology from Oxford. Acclaimed for fiction, travel writing, and journalism, his books include The Circle of Reason, The Shadow Lines, In an Antique Land, and Dancing in Cambodia. His previous novel, The Glass Palace, was an international bestseller that sold more than a half-million copies in Britain. Recently published there, The Hungry Tide has been sold for translation in twelve foreign countries and is also a bestseller abroad. Ghosh has won France's Prix Medici Etranger, India's prestigious Sahitya Akademi Award, the Arthur C. Clarke Award, and the Pushcart Prize. He now divides his time between Harvard University, where he is a visiting professor, and his homes in India and Brooklyn, New York.

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20 of 21 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Glimpses from the forgotten world, February 9, 2005

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A. Sen "Anirvan Sen" (Netherlands) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Dancing In Cambodia At Large In Burma (Hardcover)

The book comprises 3 pieces: 2 of them based in Cambodia (Dancing in Cambodia and Stories in Stones) and 1 in Myanmar/Burma (At Large in Burma). Like some of his other novels (In an antique land) and Amin Malouf's novels, 2 episodes separated by passage of time are inter-woven but linked a common thread; "Dancing in Cambodia" talks about the first ever visit of Cambodian Dance Troupe to France in 1906 and the authors quest for the remnants of this ancient art in the early 1990s in a country that was devastated by one of the worst holocausts of the present times "the Pol Pot Years". Irony is that some of the closest family members of Pol Pot or Saroth Sar, as he was known amongst friends and family; had to under-go the same ordeal as thousands of others. "They were sent off to a village of `old people', long-time Khmer Rouge sympathizers, and along with all other `new people', were made to work in the rice-fields."
Stories in Stones look looks at Angkor Wat in context with the present day Cambodia.
At Large in Burma, talks about contemporary political process in Burma where outsiders often give judgements before they understand the true nature of the country. Raked by civil war since its independence, Burma is almost a forgotten country on the world map. A country divided today as Myanmar of Yangon influence and of insurgent's territories; Burma is trying to find a future amongst the debris of the ethnic diversity of South-East Asia. "As in many families - rebellion and violence are aspects of intimacy rather than a distance".

2 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Best travelogue on Cambodia and Burma, January 31, 2010

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Fred G. Sanford "Fred G. Sanford" (Oakland, CA) - See all my reviews

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This review is from: Dancing In Cambodia At Large In Burma (Hardcover)

This is a classic book. Get your hands on it if you can. It transports you to a different world both in prose and in vision. Ghosh writes clear and evocative prose. It is a true pleasure. We used his book as a meta guide for our trip to Cambodia.