Freedom from Fear and Other Writings - Hardcover

Aung San Suu Kyi

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0670845604 ISBN 13: 9780670845606

Publisher: Viking Adult, 1991

Synopsis

The author, winner of the 1991 Nobel Peace Prize and a prisoner of Burma's ruling military junta, shares essays about her father, Burma's cultural heritage, and the need for democracy

About this title

About the Author:

Aung San Suu Kyi is the pre-democracy opposition leader in Myanmar, formerly known as Burma. She has been kept under detention for most of the past two decades. Her party, the National League for Democracy, won an overwhelming victory in 1990 elections but was denied power by the military, which has ruled since 1962. She is still being held by the government of Myanmar.

From Publishers Weekly:

Aung San Suu Kyi was awarded the 1991 Nobel Peace Prize for courageous leadership of the Burmese people in their battle against authoritarian rule. The forthright condemnation of the regime that resulted in the activist's house arrest is clearly expressed in the essays in this volume. Part one--which describes Burma's political, intellectual and literary history--includes a moving yet unsentimental biography of the author's father, Aung San. Clearly a role model, though he was assassinated when she was only two, Aung San was a seminal figure in the Burmese struggle for independence in the 1940s. Part two contains a series of essays on democracy and human rights. Of particular interest is Aung San Suu Kyi's brief statement in response to a nomination for political office. Though under house arrest at the time, she accepted "out of respect for the decision taken by my party in accordance with democratic practices." Part three presents tributes to Aung San Suu Kyi by friends and scholars. Ann Pasternak Slater candidly recalls the human rights activist as a student at Oxford becoming initiated into Western ways. A visiting professor at Harvard, Aris is the author's husband. Photos not seen by PW.
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About this edition

• Publisher: Viking Adult
• Publication date: 1991
• ISBN 10: 0670845604
• ISBN 13: 9780670845606
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 368
• Editor: Michael Aris