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Night Birds and Other Stories | Khet Mar

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Since the age of 19, Khet Mar has been persecuted by the Burmese government enduring arrests, torture, incarcerations, and threats to her life. She fought back through her writing, political activism, and social work until she was forced to flee the country in 2009. Her novel Night Birds was banned in 1993, her nonfiction piece Life Row blacklisted in 2007. The same year, the government censored several paragraphs of Night Flow, highlighted in this book.

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Night Birds and Other Stories | Khet Mar

My husband and I visited the cityofasylum.org today and took this photo of one of the Burmese House murals. And of course, I had to buy Khet Mar‘s book of short stories, “Night Birds and other stories”. City of asylum sponsors writers in exile from their home countries.

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