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Bezig met laden... Little Daughter: A Memoir of Survival in Burma and the West (origineel 2009; editie 2009)door Zoya Phan, Damien Lewis
Informatie over het werkLittle Daughter: A Mamoir of Survival in Burma and the West door Zoya Phan (2009)
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Meld je aan bij LibraryThing om erachter te komen of je dit boek goed zult vinden. Op dit moment geen Discussie gesprekken over dit boek. This book got harder and harder to put down as it drew to a conclusion. The events in this book, though historical and set in a distant land have had a huge impact on my life and it was good to see those same events through the eyes of someone who has lived them. Everybody must read this book. My kids make me read it to them every night and my daughter wants to read it on her own. I think the story will be more meaningful and eventful to her than Miley Cyrus's. Our family visited one of the Karen refugee camps and saw first hand the dignity and beauty and suffering of these people. In two weeks I'll be there again. I wish the world would wake up and look at what's happening in Burma. It makes the Tibet situation look like a tea party. geen besprekingen | voeg een bespreking toe
Zoya Phan was born in the remote jungles of Burma, to the Karen ethnic group. For decades the Karen have been under attack from Burma's military junta; Zoya's mother was a guerrilla soldier, her father a freedom activist. She lived in a bamboo hut on stilts by the Moei River; she hunted for edible fungi with her much-loved adopted brother, Say Say. Many Karen are Christian or Buddhist, but Zoya's parents were animist, venerating the spirits of forest, river and moon. Her early years were blissfully removed from the war. At the age of fourteen, however, Zoya's childhood was shattered as the Burmese army attacked. With their house in flames, Zoya and her family fled. So began two terrible years of running from guns, as Zoya joined thousands of refugees hiding in the jungle. Her family scattered, Zoya sought sanctuary across the border in a Thai refugee camp. Conditions in the camp were difficult, and Zoya now had to care for her ailing mother. Zoya, a gifted pupil, was eventually able to escape, first to Bangkok and then, with her enemies still pursuing her, in 2004 she fled to the UK and claimed asylum. The following year, at a 'free Burma' march, she was plucked from the crowd to appear on the BBC, the first of countless interviews with the world's media. She became the face of a nation enslaved, rubbing shoulders with presidents and film stars. By turns uplifting, tragic and entirely gripping, this is the extraordinary true story of the girl from the jungle who became an icon of a suffering land. Geen bibliotheekbeschrijvingen gevonden. |
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knew about what was/is happening in Burma. It is so different to hear
diectly from someone who speaks so eloquently, and from the heart.
Its an outrage against humanity what was was perpetrated on the people
An illegal regime with a madman in charge and poer in the hands of
power mad millitary carrying out ethnic cleansing. We always say never again but here it is. When you read in the paper 'the civil war'
and you hear the name of his 'party' which has the word 'peace'
in it, it all sounds like just more politics.
But the reality is something quite different, astounding, unacceptable.
There is also a profound sense of evil - brought about by this regime
which invades the lives of ordinary people.
And if you ever thought women were the weaker sex, think again.
I cant do this book justice - it is not just a book. ( )