Incident at Badamya

by Dorothy Gilman

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Gen Ferris, the only daughter of an American missionary in Burma, is held hostage with a group of lost travelers.

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BonnieJune54 Both involve the children of missionaries who are trying to survive after being taken to the back of beyond.
muumi Both books are well-written novels of suspense which use the device of an English-speaking orphan raised in a very different milieu (Badamaya, Burma and the Himalayas respectively) to explore cultural assumptions in a fascinating and sometimes humorous manner.

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This is an excellent book. The first chapter was difficult the way the main character was introduced through someone else, a person that was never heard from again but after you get into the meat of the narrative, it is awesome! Although this took place in a time many decades ago, the same thing could happen today in the year 2018!
I really like character development and this book has a lot of it. Each character changes through what they go through, some more than others, but I really like it. This was a different experience for me from a favorite author of mine but Dorothy Gilman proved that she is a master storyteller! Well done!
Well written, interesting characters, surprise ending.
Her best is so good that I wonder why she couldn't hit that level more often. Regardless, this is very good indeed. Like The Tightrope Walker, it suggests how the deep structure of a person can surface suddenly, and crack the false face.
"Incident at Badamya" was an interesting book. It had a unique plot line and believable characters. It is filled with adventure the same way any capture-and-escape themed story is, but it also explores the minds of the characters, and how people will bond when they are forced together in tough times and they are all each other has. It will take you on a journey, and is a good read.
This is still my most favorite book by Dorothy Gilman. Not only does it keep you riveted from the beginning to the end, but the characters develop wonderfully with each page read.
To be completely candid, although I am perfectly positive I read this book, I really don't remember it at all. I am looking at the back cover and not one thing rings a bell. Since I really like Gilman's other books so much, I am giving this only 2 stars on the basis that if it had been better I would remember it!

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Dorothy Gilman was born in New Brunswick, New Jersey on June 25, 1923. She studied at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts. Under her married name, Dorothy Gilman Butters, she began publishing children's books in the late 1940s including Enchanted Caravan and The Bells of Freedom. In 1966, she published The Unexpected Mrs. Pollifax, which show more became the first novel in the Mrs. Pollifax Mystery series. The series concluded in 2000 with Mrs. Pollifax Unveiled. The series was the basis of two movies: the 1971 feature film Mrs. Pollifax - Spy starring Rosalind Russell and the 1999 television movie The Unexpected Mrs. Pollifax starring Angela Lansbury. Her other works include The Clairvoyant Countess, Incident at Badamya and Kaleidoscope. A Nun in the Closet won a Catholic Book Award. She died due to complications of Alzheimer's disease on February 2, 2012 at the age of 88. (Bowker Author Biography) show less

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Original publication date
1988
Important places*
Myanmar
First words
There had been omens.

Mr. San Ya, drawing his horoscopes by the light of a candle, had seen at once that the new month was not auspicious; he had painstakingly drawn it a second time but it still promised only more vio... (show all)lence... his country was expriencing a difficult birth.
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Fiction and Literature, Mystery
DDC/MDS
813.54Literature & rhetoricAmerican literature in EnglishAmerican fiction in English1900-19991945-1999
LCC
PS3557 .I433 .I54Language and LiteratureAmerican literatureAmerican literatureIndividual authors1961-
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Dutch, English, Swedish
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