No time for dreams

Description

Compelling images of cinnamon-robed monks confronting the guns and clubs of Burma's military junta outraged the world in September 2007. Then communications links were cut, and curfews, interrogations, midnight raids, beatings, and arrests crushed the remnants of defiance. Tragically, it had all happened before. No Time for Dreams narrates a remarkable woman's search over four decades for independence and purpose as repression spreads throughout her country, once known as the Golden Land. Inspiredby the legacy of her father, Ba Tin's struggle against British colonialism beginning in the 1930s, San San Tin infuses her journey from school girl to journalist and, briefly, to businesswoman with an unbroken spirit of resistance. Offering a compassionate insider's view of politics, culture, religion, and family during nearly half a century of unrelenting dictatorship, this riveting personal story traces an arc of decline to reveal the bitter fate of a once-prosperous and cosmopolitan society.

Subjects

Genres

• Biography

Series Statement

• Asian voices

Other Editions

• No time for dreams: living in Burma under military ruleRowman & Littlefield Publishers2009-01-01
• No Time for DreamsRowman & Littlefield Publishers, Incorporated2009-01-01
• No Time for DreamsElectronic resourceRowman & Littlefield Publishing Group2010-01-01