<p>Longlisted for the Women's Prize for Fiction 2018<br>Longlisted for the National Book Award for Fiction<br><br><br>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 the Japan...