With 5 locations across the city and 1 in Mandalay, MBC knows where the profit is. Many of their centres are heavily focussed on educational, self-help and childrens books. But their main centre, in an old colonial house with a huge garden is where to go …
Memoirs are a common genre in Burmese literature in translation, and yet here, we have something unique. Dr Myint Swes memoir of his time at Rangoon General Hospital No.1 is a rare and enjoyable account of wartime Burma under the Japanese occupation from the life of a Burman.
The audience for political prisoner memoirs hasn’t yet dimmed in Myanmar, though its still rare to find one in English …
Myanmar Book Centre is holding a book fair at the Yangon Academy on March 23 from 9.00am to 3.00pm. Open to the public, there will be special promotions and discount prices on offer …