Children have a self-protective ability to conjure comforting normality out of unpromising circumstances, but true stability was elusive. For decades the Karen have been under attack from Burma’s military junta Zoya’s mother was a guerrilla soldier, her father a freedom activist. For the whole of Zoya Phan's short life (she is 28) and for the previous 30-plus years, ever since Burmese independence from Britain, the Karen have been at war with the Burmese state, fighting to realise what the departing British promised but failed to provide: a Karen homeland. Now, Zoya, a young member ofthe Karen tribe in Burma, bravely comes forward with her astonishingly vivid story of growing up in the idyllic green mansions. Little Daughter Author (s): Zoya Phan Location (s): Burma (Myanmar) Genre (s): Autobiography/Memoirs Era (s): Recent Zoya Phan was born in the remote jungles of Burma, to the Karen ethnic group. How no Karen meal is complete without fish paste.īut this was bucolic, traditional country life on the hoof.
In the same year, she published her autobiography, Little Daughter: A Memoir of Survival in Burma. Untold generations of Karen villagers have grown up as she did, learning which tree provides the giant leaves to roof the house, what is the meal that must be cooked (pumpkin and chicken curry) to reward villagers who help with the annual re-roofing, which plants to run to when a cut needs binding. Best match Highest price Lowest price First editions Signed copies All copies Little Daughter: A Memoir of Survival in Burma and the West by Phan, Zoya Seller Bonita Condition Good ISBN 9781847394262 Item Price 99.34. Zoya Phan is from the Karen ethnic group in Burma. She was a jungle girl, and Zoya Phan's childhood was a long immersion in the elemental realities of country life on Burma's eastern border: the bamboo home on stilts, the ducks and chickens clucking underneath, the garden of aubergines and chillies, the perilous playground of forest and river, the elephants tame and wild, the feasts of pork curry and water spinach.
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