{"product_id":"the-rebel-of-rangoon-a-tale-of-defiance-and-deliverance-in-burma-9781568584980","title":"The Rebel of Rangoon: A Tale of Defiance and Deliverance in Burma","description":"\u003cp\u003eOne of Kirkus Reviews Best Books of 2015  An epic  multigenerational story of courage and sacrifice set in a tropical dictatorship  The Rebel of Rangoon captures a gripping moment of possibility in Burma (Myanmar)  Once the shining promise of Southeast Asia  Burma in May 2009 ranks among the worlds most repressive and impoverished nations. Its ruling military junta seems to be at the height of its powers. But despite decades of constant brutality-and with their leader  the Nobel Peace Prize-laureate Aung San Suu Kyi  languishing under house arrest-a shadowy fellowship of oddballs and misfits  young dreamers and wizened elders  bonded by the urge to say no to the system  refuses to relent. In the byways of Rangoon and through the pathways of Internet cafes  Nway  a maverick daredevil; Nigel  his ally and sometime rival; and Grandpa  the movements senior strategist who has just emerged from nineteen years in prison  prepare to fight a battle fifty years in the making.  When Burma was still sealed to foreign journalists  Delphine Schrank spent four years underground reporting among dissidents as they struggled to free their country. From prison cells and safe houses  The Rebel of Rangoon follows the inner life of Nway and his comrades to describe that journey  revealing in the process how a movement of dissidents came into being  how it almost died  and how it pushed its government to crack apart and begin an irreversible process of political reform. The result is a profoundly human exploration of daring and defiance and the power and meaning of freedom.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45815847288885,"sku":"ByrdShop_1568584989","price":24.24,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/9781568584980.jpg?v=1785174876","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/the-rebel-of-rangoon-a-tale-of-defiance-and-deliverance-in-burma-9781568584980","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}