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Twenty-one years ago, after Suu Kyi’s National League for Democracy (NLD) swept a general election, the results were annulled, the party’s leaders and workers were incarcerated or exiled, and two decades of ruthless – and remarkably opaque – military rule followed.

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And along came the Internet and it swept them out of the way, and it allowed all of us to connect together, and it was awesome.

We saw the food riots in 2008, after what I call the silent tsunami of hunger swept the globe when food prices doubled overnight.

Which struck me as particularly remarkable during one session with the novel when I realized that I was being swept along on this remarkable, vivid journey in translation.

And that's really important, because educational institutions have historically swept gender violence under the rug, much like our criminal justice system does today.

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