![]() ![]() ‘Fractured land’: it is an oft-used term but in many ways it seems the best phrase to describe contemporary Burma. Eimer has returned and that ‘Burma book’, referred to several monsoons ago, has passed through its gestation and now seats prominently on the hollow shelves of the globe’s bookshops. ’ David replied, “it’s more in my head than on paper, but it’s coming together.”Īnd then he was gone, pedalling off into the monsoon sun of a lazy Phnom Penh afternoon.īut now Mr. There was, though, time for one last question as he made his way towards his bicycle. Time quickly passed and with the second latte kicking in David announced the need to leave for another appointment. ![]() The Emperor Far Away was an excellent piece of travelling reportage and I enjoyed the opportunity to sit down and to talk to the man who had ‘fathered’ the tome. Back then, however, our conversation centred on another book, also by Eimer, The Emperor Far Away: Travels at the Edge of China, which I was reviewing for a city paper.Įimer was newly arrived in Phnom Penh, having escaped from Bangkok for a planned new beginning in the kingdom’s fair capital (it did not work out, Eimer moved on a few months after our interview). Howl dines on David Eimer’s superb new account of modern day Burma, a land where the past is never that far away.įive years ago, in a leafy café in the heart of Phnom Penh, I sat down with David Eimer whose new book, A Savaged Dreamland: Journeys in Burma, was published in August. ![]()
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