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The Road to Wanting

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The Road to Wanting

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A startlingly fresh story of a young woman's reluctant homecoming, longlisted for the Orange Prize for fiction 2011. Sometimes the hardest journey is the road home.Na Ga was always in search of a better life. But now she sits, alone, in a hotel room in Wanting, a godforsaken town on the Chinese-Burmese border. Plucked from her wild life as a rural eel-catcher, Na Ga is then abandoned by her would-be rescuers in Rangoon. Later, as a teenager, she finds herself chasing the dream of a new life in Thailand - where further betrayals and violations await. Yet it seems that her fighting spirit will not be broken.But for how long can Na Ga belong nowhere and with no one? In the dingy hotel in Wanting she is forced to confront her compulsion to keep running, and to ask herself why, until now, she's resisted the journey home.Longlisted for the Orange Prize for Fiction 2011.

Author Biography:

Wendy Law-Yone was born in Mandalay, Burma, and grew up in Rangoon, where her father founded the leading English-language daily, The Nation. Wendy was exiled to the United States where she published two novels, The Coffin Tree and Irrawaddy Tango, before her move to the UK following a David T.K. Wong creative writing fellowship at the University of East Anglia. She lives in London and Rye.
Release date Australia
March 17th, 2011
Audience
  • General (US: Trade)
Pages
272
Dimensions
129x198x17
ISBN-13
9780099535980
Product ID
10064149

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