{"product_id":"undaunted-my-struggle-for-freedom-and-survival-in-burma-9781439102862","title":"Undaunted: My Struggle for Freedom and Survival in Burma","description":"\u003cp\u003eOnce a royal kingdom and then part of the British Empire  Burma long held sway in the Western imagination as a mythic place of great beauty. In recent times  Burma has been torn apart and isolated by one of the most brutal dictatorships in the world. Now  Zoya of the  a young member ofthe Karen tribe in Burma  bravely comes forward with her astonishingly vivid story of growing up in the idyllic green mansions of the jungle  and her violent displacement by the military junta that has controlled the country for almost a half century. This same cadre has also relentlessly hunted Zoya and her family across borders and continents. Undaunted tells of Zoyas riveting adventures  from her unusual childhood in a fascinating remote culture  to her years on the run  to her emergence as an activist icon.  Named for a courageous Russian freedom fighter of World War II  Zoya was fourteen when Burmese aircraft bombed her peaceful village  forcing her and her family to flee through the jungles to a refugee camp just over the border in Thailand. After being trapped in refugee camps for years in poverty and despair  her family scattered: as her father became more deeply involved in the struggle for freedom  Zoya and her sister left their mother in the camp to go to a college in Bangkok to which they had won scholarships. But even as she attended classes  Zoya  the girl from the jungle  had to dodge police and assume an urban disguise  as she was technically an illegal immigrant and subject to deportation. Although  following graduation  she obtained a comfortable job with a major communications company in Bangkok  Zoya felt called back to Burma to help her mother and her people  millions of whom still have to live on the run today in order to survivein fact  more villages have been destroyed in eastern Burma than in Darfur  Sudan.  After a plot to kill her was uncovered  in 2004 Zoya escaped to the United Kingdom  where she began speaking at political conferences and demonstrationsa mission made all the more vital by her fathers assassination in 2008 by agents of the Burmese regime. Like Ayaan Hirsi Ali  Zoya has become a powerful spokesperson against oppressors  undaunted by dangers posed to her life. Zoyas love of her people  their land  and their way of life fuels her determination to survive  and in Undaunted she hauntingly brings to life a lost culture and world  putting faces to the stories of the numberless innocent victims of Burmas military\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45648057958453,"sku":"ByrdShop_1439102864","price":22.09,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/9781439102862.jpg?v=1781708318","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/undaunted-my-struggle-for-freedom-and-survival-in-burma-9781439102862","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}