Pascal Khoo Thwe
From the Land of Green Ghosts:
A Burmese Odyssey

Pascal Khoo Thwe was born in 1967 in a remote part of the Shan States, southeast Burma. He was born as a member of the tiny Kayan Padaung tribe, a tribe famous for their 'giraffe-necked' women. How he developed a passion for English literature (specifically, James Joyce), became involved in the student resistance to savage military repression, escaped to Thailand and won an English degree at Cambridge University, United Kingdom, is the story told in From the Land of Green Ghosts, his first book. Pascal Khoo Thwe now lives in London.