Faber & faber River of lost footsteps (Faber & Faber)

Drawing both on his own family's stories and his years of hands-on political experience, Thant Myint-U has written an illuminating account of how Burma's rich past informs its violent present, and of how the world might transform the country's future. This is the story of modern Burma, and a narrative that is by turns lyrical, dramatic, and appalling.