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They called it "China's Wild West": Wanting, a booming town on the Burma-China border in the late 1980s, a magnet for outcasts, opportunists and the desperate, like Na Ga. For her, the town is not the start of a new life but the end of the road. Her American lover, Will, has left her, as she always expected he would, with painful memories, money in the bank and a one-way ticket back to Burma, the land of her birth, which she long ago left behind.
The Road to Wanting is a journey from the remote, colorful tribal villages of northern Burma, through Rangoon under its grim military regime, to the brothels of Thailand and the hedonism of Bangkok. With rare candor it examines the life of a young woman whose fate is always in the hands of others, whether well-meaning Americans or petty pimps.
This is the Hebrew edition of The Road to Wanting, translated by Yael Achmon.