Wendy Law-Yone
Wendy Law-Yone was born in Mandalay, and Burma is the backdrop to all of her novels – The Coffin Tree, Irrawaddy Tango, and The Road to Wanting. Her first non-fiction book is a memoir of her father E M Law-Yone, the founder of Burma’s leading English-language newspaper The Nation, who was imprisoned by the military junta.
Books by Wendy Law-Yone
Interviews with Wendy Law-Yone
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
