{"id":159,"date":"2020-11-16T16:15:03","date_gmt":"2020-11-16T16:15:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rosrussellauthor-com.stackstaging.com\/?page_id=159"},"modified":"2023-10-16T11:43:15","modified_gmt":"2023-10-16T10:43:15","slug":"burmas-spring","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/rosrussellauthor.com\/index.php\/burmas-spring\/","title":{"rendered":"Burma\u2019s Spring"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n<div class=\"simpleImg\">\n    <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/rosrussellauthor.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/NYC5940-1-scaled.jpg\" width=\"100%\">\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n  <div class=\"largeTextContainer\" style=\"background-color:;\">\n\n\n\n    <h1 style=\"color:#0a0a0a;\">\n      Burma&#8217;s Spring    <\/h1>\n\n  <\/div>\n\n\n\n\n  <div class=\"paraTextContainer\" style=\"background-color:#FFFFFF;\">\n\n\n\n    <p style=\"color:#000000;\">\n      <p>Burma&#8217;s Spring documents the struggles of ordinary people made extraordinary by circumstance. In 2009, Rosalind went to live in Burma (or Myanmar) with her family. She witnessed a time of unprecedented change in a secretive country that had been locked under military dictatorship for half a century. Her memoir carries the reader through a turbulent era of uprising, disaster and political awakening with a vivid retelling of her encounters as an undercover reporter. From Aung San Suu Kyi to the broken-hearted domestic worker Mu Mu, a Buddhist monk to a punk, a palm reader to a girl band, these are stories of tragedy, resilience and hope woven together in a vivid portrait of a land for so long hidden from view.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Burma\u2019s Spring was published by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.riverbooksbk.com\">River Books<\/a> in 2015 and reached number one in the UK Kindle non-fiction bestseller list. 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