![]() "synopsis" may belong to another edition of this title. Pascal developed a love of the English language through listening to the BBC World Service, and it was while working as a waiter in Mandalay to pay for his studies that he met the Cambridge don John Casey, who was to prove his saviour. Pascal's grandmother had been exhibited in a touring circus in England as a freak). ![]() (The Padaung are famous for their giraffe women - so-called because their necks are ritually elongated with ornamental copper rings. In the 1930s, Pascal's grandfather captured an Italian Jesuit, mistaking him for a giant or a wild beast the Jesuit in turn converted the tribe. In lyrical prose, Pascal Khoo-Thwe describes his childhood as a member of the Padaung Hill tribe, where ancestor worship and communion with spirits blended with the tribe's recent conversion to Christianity. ![]() This text recounts the story of a young man's upbringing in a remote tribal village in Burma and his journey from his strife-torn country to the tranquil quads of Cambridge. ![]()
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