Books by Nu Nu Yi
Smile as They Bow
by Nu Nu Yi
A simple story on the face of it – yet it took 12 years for the censors in Burma to allow the publication of Smile as They Bow. Reading between the lines, it’s not difficult to see why. Spirit worship, homosexuals, beggars, exploitation, poverty, greed – these are subjects abhorred and banned by repressive regimes the world over.
Interviews where books by Nu Nu Yi were recommended
The best books on Her Own Burma, recommended by Wendy Law-Yone
Wendy Law-Yone says the same blend of megalomania and mysticism inherent in Burmese despots and witnessed in 17th-century Burma, that dynastic lunacy with delusions of divinity, is still in florid evidence today
