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From the acclaimed author of Miss Burma comes a tense and thought-provoking exploration of an intellectual affair and its reverberations across the lives of two couples.

My Nemesis is the brilliant third novel by Charmaine Craig, the acclaimed author of Miss Burma. It is set largely in Los Angeles, where it focuses on an intellectual affair between two married writers and confronts ideas of race and womanhood.Craig inhabits the first-person voice of her unreliable narrator Tessa—a white woman with a somewhat fixed idea of womanhood and feminism. Tessa develops a sense of antagonism in the novel to Wah, a mixed...

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My Nemesis is the brilliant third novel by Charmaine Craig, the acclaimed author of Miss Burma. It is set largely in Los Angeles, where it focuses on an intellectual affair between two married writers and confronts ideas of race and womanhood.Craig inhabits the first-person voice of her unreliable narrator Tessa?a white woman with a somewhat fixed idea of womanhood and feminism. Tessa develops a sense of antagonism in the novel to Wah, a mixed...

From the acclaimed author of Miss Burma comes a tense and thought-provoking exploration of an intellectual affair and its reverberations across the lives of two couples.

Longlisted for the Women's Prize for Fiction 2018Longlisted for the National Book Award for FictionSet against the vibrant backdrop of Burma from the 1940s to the 1960s, Miss Burma is a powerful and epic novel that follows one prominent Burmese family struggling to overcome war and political repression while trying to build a meaningful life

Miss Burma tells the story of modern-day Burma through the eyes of Benny and Khin, husband and wife, and their daughter Louisa. After attending school in Calcutta, Benny settles in Rangoon, then part of the British Empire, and falls in love with Khin, a woman who is part of a long-persecuted ethnic minority group, the Karen. World War II comes to Southeast Asia, and Benny and Khin must go into hiding in the eastern part of the country during t...

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In fourteenth-century France, a young woman from the mountain village of Montaillou was tried for heresy by the Catholic inquisition. Her name was Grazida Lizier and, by her own confession, her "joy was shared” with the wrong man: the village rector.