"The dialogues [in The Voice of Hope] express Aung San Suu Kyi's humor, erudition, wisdom and accessibility, and demonstrate why she has become a world spiritual leader."-The New York Times Book Review

"Reading this book, one can well understand why [Aung San Suu Kyi] has been compared to such heroes of freedom as Nelson Mandela and Vclav Havel."-San Francisco Chronicle

Aung San Suu Kyi, Nobel Prize Laureate, mother of two, and devout Buddhist, is one of the most inspiring examples of spiritually infused politics and fearless leadership that the world has ever seen. Daughter of the martyred Burmese national hero who negotiated Burma's independence from Britain in the 1940s, Aung San Suu Kyi was called upon to lead the pro-democracy movement in Burma in 1988. The movement was quickly and brutally crushed by the military junta, and Aung San Suu Kyi was placed under house arrest.

The Voice of Hopeis a rare and intimate journey to the heart of her struggle. Over a period of nine months, Alan Clements, the first American ordained as a Buddhist monk in Burma, met with Aung San Suu Kyi shortly after her release from her first house arrest in July 1995. With her trademark ability to speak directly and compellingly, she presents here her vision of engaged compassion and describes how she has managed to sustain her hope and optimism.

Aung San Suu Kyiis the leader of the National League for Democracy, which achieved a decisive victory in the last Burmese national election, held in 1990. The junta has refused to acknowledge the legitimacy of that vote. She has lived under house arrest for twelve of the last eighteen years.

Alan Clementsis the author of Burma: The Next Killing Fields?and Burma's Revolution of the Spirit. Since completion of The Voice of Hope, he has been permanently blacklisted in Burma.

Nobel Peace Prize winner Aung San Suu Kyi is the Burmese leader of the National League For Democracy and is widely seen as the leading opponent of the military junta currently governing Burma (Myanmar). This volume reproduces transcripts of conversations conducted Between Suu Kyi and Clements, an American ordained as a Buddhist monk in Burma, in which she discusses her life and her political and spiritual philosophy. The volume also includes interviews with fellow National League for Democracy leaders U Tin U and U Kyi Maung and, new to this edition, an interview with U Gambira, a now-detained leader of the All-Burma Monks Alliance, which was involved in organizing the major protests of late 2007. Annotation ©2008 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)