The River of Lost Footsteps

Thant Myint-U’s The River of Lost Footsteps is a cumulative history of Burma, beginning in the 1800s in the Court of Ava (the Burmese monarchy), continuing through what he calls the “heyday” of colonial Burma, and ending with the military dictatorship, the “longest-lasting military dictatorship in the world and its purest.” Thant covers a great [...]