Sunday, August 04, 2013

K.M.Kaung's mini review of Joseph Anton - Salman Rushdie's memoir -

Oh, it is excellent - although written in 3rd person, somehow he manages to recall all the trauma and details of the fatwa period - and is completely honest in what he says about himself. It is amazing that he lived to tell the story and also managed to live a somewhat normal life through it all. Also the "normal" deaths among his close ones, while he under a fatwa survived.

Has the unerring eye and total recall of a born writer.

Kyi May Kaung

The late Leo Nichols--I met him and his wife once at a dinner party for "Timber friends." I left Burma in 1980s and heard of his death while working at RFA.

AI Overview The Danish (and Norwegian, Finnish, Swiss) honorary consul in Burma (Myanmar) during the 1990s who was arrested and died in pri...