Irrawaddy Tango (Magill’s Literary Annual 1991-2005)
At a glance:
- Author: Wendy Law-Yone
- First Published: 1993
- Type of Work: Novel
- Time of Work: The 1940’s to the 1990’s
- Setting: Myanmar (formerly Burma), Thailand, and the United States
- Principal Characters: Irrawaddy Mew Tango, Supremo, Boyan, Thurani, Lawrence, Rex
- Genres: Long fiction
- Subjects: Dictators, United States or Americans, Revolutionaries, Love or romance, Marriage, World War II, Women, Small-town life, Dancing or dancers, Captivity, Asian Americans, Southeast Asia, Hostages or hostage taking
- Locales: United States, Thailand, Myanmar
Irrawaddy Tango, the second novel of Asian American writer Wendy Law-Yone, follows her well-received The Coffin Tree (1983). Both are told through first-person female narrators and set in Law-Yone’s native Burma (Myanmar) and in her adopted homeland, the United States. Irrawaddy Tango tells a gripping tale of a Southeast Asian woman’s experience of physical, mental, and political abuse with brilliant physical detail, psychological penetration, and erotic candor. Irrawaddy Tango is not flawless, however, having longueurs of plot and a sometimes...
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