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Singing to the dead : a missioner's life among refugees from Burma /

It is 1992, and the Burmese government's current war on its indigenous people runs into its fourth year. In neighboring Thailand, a small band of Buddhist monks harbors refugees from Burma inside their modest temple in the slums of Bangkok. The monks and refugees are all natives of the Burmese...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Armour-Hileman, Victoria, 1958-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Athens, Ga. : University of Georgia Press, ©2002.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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  • Blessings in the rain
  • Flying Buddha
  • Florence Nightingale
  • Mothers and sons
  • Beyond risk
  • A soldier in the jungle
  • A basket of prayers
  • Dancing with the hurricane
  • Death railway
  • A letter from prison
  • Selling death
  • Misunderstandings
  • Where our sympathies lie
  • Safe
  • The sound of the prison gate
  • A true friend
  • The stories we tell
  • Where the poor search for justice
  • Snowy river
  • Crossing borders
  • Presidents and kings
  • When Monland is free
  • One step forward
  • Singing to the dead
  • The face of God
  • A strange reception
  • A case of stomachache
  • The lion and the dragon.