Bernadette Brennan
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419 appearances
3 recordings
1 series
first heard May 2018
last heard 29 May
Bernadette Brennan’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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And that's, I think, another power of this novel is
that once you've read the novel, you will go away appreciating that the complexities of Burmese history are much bigger than we thought, but also the complexities of Southeast Asian countries are much bigger than we thought, of who's playing off whom and who's been a puppet.
And there's a line in there where she says something like...
Benny has been writing editorials for American newspapers.
Benny is Louise's Miss Burma's father.
And suddenly he realises they don't care.
They don't care what he says.
And he says, they didn't care at all about the Karen.
They didn't care about the Burmese.
All they cared about were the Russians, the Chinese and the British.
Not entirely successfully.
Okay.
There were many times I thought, I don't want to keep reading this.
It's overwritten.
I don't care about the next generation of love affairs or the great soldier who looked out and he felt like a man again.
And these kinds of moments, I thought, this story is too big to be treated in this way.
Having said that, I can see that she obviously wanted popular readership and a large readership and got that that way.
When you asked me to read this book for this show, I was quite excited because back in 2002, I was sent a manuscript by Pandanus Press and asked for an opinion.
And it was called White Butterflies and it was by Colin McPhadren.
And Colin McPhadren was a...
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