Once 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 Zoya's 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
survive--in 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 demonstrations--a mission made all the more vital
by her father's 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. Zoya's 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 Burma's
military
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