LETTERS FROM BURMA Aung San Suu Kyi (Myanmar)

LETTERS FROM BURMA: For the last decade of Burma's traumatic history, Aung San Suu Kyi-winner of the 1991 Nobel Peace Prize-has been the inspirational leader of attempts to restore democracy to her country. In these fifty-two pieces, originally written for a Japanese newspaper and begun soon after her release from house arrest, she paints a vivid, poignant yet fundamentally optimistic picture of her native land.

USED BOOK IN GOOD CONDITION: clean with some mild reading wear to edges and corners; read a few times; pages are clean and tanning with age; name inscription scribbled out in pen on first page. See photos for cover blurb, condition and sample pages. The book in the photos is the actual book you will receive - we never use stock pictures - enjoy!

PUBLISHER'S BLURB; Aung San Suu Kyi, human-rights activist and leader of Burma's National League for Democracy, was sentenced to six years' house arrest in Rangoon in 1989 by SLORC, the ruling military junta.

In this collection of writings from her imprisonment, Aung San Suu Kyi paints a vivid, poignant yet fundamentally optimistic picture of her native land. Letters from Burma evokes the country's seasons, customs, festivities and celebrates the courageous army officers, academics, and actors who risked their reputations and careers by their support of the National League for Democracy. Aung San Suu Kyi reveals an acute insight into the impact of political limitations on peoples' lives by examining the effects of inflation on the national diet and advocating better healthcare and educational programs. This woman's vision, humanity, and commitment to political and ethnic harmony won her party an overwhelming victory in the elections of May 1990; every facet of her personality is powerfully displayed in these revelatory letters.

Book Details

Code: SKU2024

Condition: See notes and photos below

Binding: Paperback

Pages: 209

Published: 1997 by Penguin, UK

ISBN: 0140264035

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