Insiders Guide to Japan

Travel

Peter Popham

Asia

The Insider's Guide to Korea/With Map

Hunter Pub Inc

<p>Nobel Peace Prize Laureate Aung San Suu Kyiknown to the world as an icon for democracy and nonviolent dissent in oppressed Burma, and to her followers as simply The Ladyhas recently returned to international headlines. Now, this major new biography offers essential reading at a moment when Burma, after decades of stagnation, is once again in flux. Suu Kyis remarkable life begins with that of her father, Aung San. The architect of Burmas independence, he was assassinated when she was only two. Suu Kyi grew up in India (where her mother served as ambassador), studied at Oxford, and worked for three years at the UN in New York. In 1972, she married Michael Aris, a British scholar. They had two sons, and for several years she lived as a self-described housewifebut she never forgot that she was the daughter of Burmas national hero. In April 1988, Suu Kyi returned to Burma to nurse her sick mother. Within six months</p>

The Lady and the Peacock: The Life of Aung San Suu Kyi

Biographies & Memoirs

Popham, Peter

Community & Culture

Experiment

India Be Damned: A Novel of Partition

Literature & Fiction

Genre Fiction

Camphor Press Ltd

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