A pepper-tongued, tango-dancing Asian beauty rises from a village girlhood to become the wife of her country's dictator, and then a leader of the guerrillas arrayed against him. Her story is told in a novel that moves from the fictitious Asian country of Daya to America and back, from the 1940s to the 90s.
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A pepper-tongued, tango-dancing Asian beauty rises from a village girlhood to become the wife of her country's dictator, and then a leader of the guerrillas arrayed against him. Her story is told in a novel that moves from the fictitious Asian country of Daya to America and back, from the 1940s to the 90s.
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Near Fine/Near Fine. Size: 6x1x9; Octavo, 8 1/2" tall, 290 pages, black quarter-cloth with gilt title on spine. A near fine, clean, neat, hard cover first edition with minor shelf wear; hinges and binding tight, paper cream white. In a near fine lightly rubbed dust jacket, with original price.
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New York. 1993. January 1994. Knopf. 1st American Edition. Very Good in Slightly Worn Dustjacket. 0679421920. 289 pages. hardcover. Jacket painting is from the Victoria and Albert Museum, London. keywords: Literature Burma Women Asia. FROM THE PUBLISHER-A novel of love, vengeance and political unrest in South East Asia. Irrawaddy Tango, a pepper-tongued, tango-dancing Asian beauty rises from a village girlhood to become the wife of her country's dictator and then a leader of the rebel forces arrayed against him. Tango captures the attention of an ambitious colonel--the self-proclaimed Supremo--while dancing at a talent contest. Once married, she is forced to endure the cruelties of a ruthless and foolish husband, is kidnapped by rebel forces, recaptured and brutally punished by her husband's military clique, and eventually exiled to America. Her return to the fictional Republic of Daya (clearly Burma) brings about the destruction of her husband and his dictatorship. Irrawaddy Tango tells the unsettling tale of powerful men and powerless women. It evokes as well the harshness of exile, revealing the misunderstandings between East and West and by doing so captures the intensity of living between the two. inventory #23730.