No Time for Dreams
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishing Group
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Lanham
Language: eng
Format: Electronic resource
Number of pages: 197
ISBN-13: 9780742557192
Description: This book narrates a remarkable woman's search over four decades for independence and purpose as repression spreads throughout her country, once known as the Golden Land. Inspired by the legacy of her father Ba Tin's struggle against British colonialism beginning in the 1930s, San San Tin infuses her journey from school girl to journalist and, briefly, to businesswoman with an unbroken spirit of resistance. Offering a compassionate insider's view of politics, culture, religion, and family during nearly half a century of unrelenting dictatorship, this riveting personal story traces an arc of decline to reveal the bitter fate of a once-prosperous and cosmopolitan society.