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Little Daughter - A Memoir of Survival in Burma and the West (Paperback)
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Little Daughter - A Memoir of Survival in Burma and the West (Paperback)
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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.
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