- Hardcover: 368 pages
- Publisher: Viking; Viking Ed edition (28 Nov 1991)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0670845604
- ISBN-13: 978-0670845606
- Product Dimensions: 21.2 x 15 x 2.6 cm
- Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 4,851,348 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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This book is bound to become a classic for a new generation of Asians who value democracy even more highly than Westerners do, simply because they are deprived of the basic freedoms that Westerners take for granted (The New York Times )
Aung San Suu Kyi's extraordinary achievement has been to confront the regime peacefully, reasonably and persuasively... [in] one of the most laudable continuing acts of political courage (Financial Times )
Such is the depth of passion and learning that she brings to her writings about national identity and its links with culture and language that she has attracted the admiration of intellectuals around the world (Sunday Times ) --This text refers to the Paperback edition.
Aung San Suu Kyi's extraordinary achievement has been to confront the regime peacefully, reasonably and persuasively... [in] one of the most laudable continuing acts of political courage (Financial Times )
Such is the depth of passion and learning that she brings to her writings about national identity and its links with culture and language that she has attracted the admiration of intellectuals around the world (Sunday Times ) --This text refers to the Paperback edition.
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First published by Viking in 1993 and now available in paperback, a collection of writings from the leader of Burma's National League for Democracy, who has recently been released from house arrest after 6 years in detention. Edited by Michael Aris.
--This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
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27 of 29 people found the following review helpful
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Aung San Suu Kyi has spent most of the time since her party's landslide election victory in 1990 under house arrest. Yet this remarkable woman refuses to hate or fear the kleptocratic regime that keeps her there. Instead she preaches peaceful revolution and reconcilliation and points to the example of Mahatmar Ghandi.
READ THIS BOOK and pass it on or recommend it so that the world can see and revere the courage, fortitude and above all dignity of the worlds ONLY imprisoned Nobel Peace Prize winner.
3 of 3 people found the following review helpful
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Aung San Suu Kyi is one of the most inspiring people I have come across and has maintained her integrity through many hardships. This book shows her absolute moral beliefs and also her value as a scholar, interesting for anyone wanting a greater understanding of the nation of Burma and the woman who personnifies opposition to the rule of the dictatorship that suppresses it.
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33 of 34 people found the following review helpful
An incarnation of Burma's struggle and hope
30 Dec 2000
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Once more, Nobel Peace prize laureate Aung San Suu Kyi presents us with a thrilling book, of which she is the author, but also being the incarnation of Burma's struggle for democracy. This book is (to use a rather 'heretic' term) a 'bible' of Burma's struggle for freedom, and is destined to go down among the books who made the country's and the region's history. You will read it in two or three hours without putting it down. This one, among her three major books, is particularly well-written, edited by her late husband Dr Michael Aris (Peace be Upon Him). Suu Kyi's account is fervid, direct, impartial. She expresses her views with submission, total lack of any aggression or resentment, peace of mind... She manages, through her writings, not just to tell of her country's bloodshed and terror regime, but also to convey a marvellous great feeling of peace and hope, in fact, freedom from fear ! She talks of the country and her people, and also of herself, explaining how she approached - emotionally and psychologically - the struggle during almost a decade of home arrest or controlled movements. She provides a recipe for all those who, with her courage, would like to join the battle for world justice. Truly a wonderful book, by one of the world's most wonderful persons, whom I met in Rangoon in 1998, and being deported from the country as a result. May G-d bless her, her country, and her struggle. Meanwhile, you might find in this book some inspiration and strength - to fight for similar causes, or just to live your everyday life. Wonderful !
17 of 17 people found the following review helpful
The eloquent voice of an often forgotten but mighty land
13 Sep 2003
Format:Mass Market Paperback
I re-read this book shortly after Aung San Suu Kyi was placed, once again, under house arrest in 2003. The daughter of the man who is referred as the founding father of Burma(today called Myanmar) - Aung San - is herself a major political figure in her country. The chapter about her father - who was assassinated when the author was two years old - is an impressive, informative, and dispassionate account of Aung San's days as a student leader and his leadership of the independence movement that established modern Burma as a nation. My own father was a foreign correspondent in Burma in the late 1940s and had covered the assassination of Aung San and his colleagues. This left me since my childhood with a deep curiosity about this period of Burmese history - and Aung San's daughter's account does not leave curious readers like myself disappointed. Most of the book is devoted to the life and times of Suu Kyi herself. It includes several articles by other writers who help readers understand how a Burmese woman rises to national prominence in a country which has known but unbroken military dictatorship for decades. This book is also about Burmese culture, religion, and language, and should be on the bookshelf on anyone who has a serious interest in this curious, wretched country of tremendous unfulfilled potential.
If you have an interest in Burmese or Southeast Asian history, you might also consider reading Amitav Ghosh's The Glass Palace, a historical novel which I have also reviewed on this website.
13 of 13 people found the following review helpful
Indispensible
18 April 2003
Format:Mass Market Paperback
This book was for me an opener into the evolution of Burma's political scene, and it proved to be a good one.
Whilst it takes some time to get accustomed to the many abbreviations of Burma's political parties and factions, once it is gotten used to, Freedom from Fear becomes an essential book for those interested in the becoming of Aung San Suu Kyi - daughter of Burma's national hero, the late Aung San - and her process of fighting and eventually winning the support of the country she always called home depite her international influences.
Though Freedom from Fear would be a good book to start learning about Burma's modern political history, I would suggest first reading about pre-colonial Burma to get a better grasp and understanding of the country's stand and place in Southeast Asia.
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