CONVERSATION WITH A DICTATOR : A Challenge to the Authoritarian Assault
Language: English
Published by WORLD DHARMA PUBLICATIONS, 2025
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nach der Bestellung gedruckt Neuware - Printed after ordering - CONVERSATION WITH A DICTATORA Challenge to the Authoritarian AssaultA Fictional Dialogue with Myanmar's Senior GeneralAn Illustrated Novel | Art as Activism | A Call to Free Aung San Suu KyiIn the wake of Myanmar's 2021 military coup, democracy was decimated. Thousands of citizens-including poets, monks, students, mothers-have been imprisoned, tortured, or killed. Among the silenced is Nobel Peace Laureate Aung San Suu Kyi, once the face of Burma's democratic movement, now held incommunicado by the regime that fears her voice.This book imagines what the world has been denied: a direct confrontation with tyranny.Told as a fictional yet psychologically forensic dialogue between an exiled journalist and Senior General Min Aung Hlaing-the ruthless architect of Myanmar's dictatorship-Conversation with a Dictator plunges readers into the heart of authoritarian pathology. Through piercing prose and haunting visual storytelling, it lays bare the machinery of repression: the seduction of power, the perversion of Buddhism, and the fetishization of control masked in the language of patriotism and security.But this is more than a reckoning. It is a weapon of truth. A call to global conscience. A luminous act of defiance.Boldly blending literature, journalism, spiritual insight, and political resistance, this illustrated novel challenges not only the junta in Myanmar but authoritarianism in all its modern disguises-from digital surveillance states to populist strongmen.About the AuthorAlan Clements is an author, journalist, spoken word artist, and former Buddhist monk-one of the first Westerners ordained in Myanmar, later expelled for exposing the regime's crimes. For decades, he's stood with Burma's pro-democracy movement, including Aung San Suu Kyi, bearing witness through literature and activism. His work has appeared in The New York Times, The Guardian, TIME, Newsweek, and more. His books include Burma: The Next Killing Fields , A Future to Believe In, and The Voice of Hope-a landmark dialogue with Suu Kyi. Conversation with a Dictator is his most unflinching work to date: a literary confrontation with tyranny, and a call to remember those still imprisoned for speaking truth. …
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- Title
- CONVERSATION WITH A DICTATOR : A Challenge to the Authoritarian Assault
- Author
- Alan E Clements
- Publisher
- WORLD DHARMA PUBLICATIONS
- Publication year
- 2025
- Condition
- Neu
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- Taschenbuch
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- English
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- 1953508332
- ISBN 13
- 9781953508331
- Item weight
- 1,049 grams
- Dimensions
- 229x152x31 mm
CONVERSATION WITH A DICTATOR
A Challenge to the Authoritarian Assault
A Fictional Dialogue with Myanmar's Senior General
An Illustrated Novel | Art as Activism | A Call to Free Aung San Suu Kyi
In the wake of Myanmar's 2021 military coup, democracy was decimated. Thousands of citizens-including poets, monks, students, mothers-have been imprisoned, tortured, or killed. Among the silenced is Nobel Peace Laureate Aung San Suu Kyi, once the face of Burma's democratic movement, now held incommunicado by the regime that fears her voice.
This book imagines what the world has been denied: a direct confrontation with tyranny.
Told as a fictional yet psychologically forensic dialogue between an exiled journalist and Senior General Min Aung Hlaing-the ruthless architect of Myanmar's dictatorship-Conversation with a Dictator plunges readers into the heart of authoritarian pathology. Through piercing prose and haunting visual storytelling, it lays bare the machinery of repression: the seduction of power, the perversion of Buddhism, and the fetishization of control masked in the language of patriotism and security.
But this is more than a reckoning. It is a weapon of truth. A call to global conscience. A luminous act of defiance.
Boldly blending literature, journalism, spiritual insight, and political resistance, this illustrated novel challenges not only the junta in Myanmar but authoritarianism in all its modern disguises-from digital surveillance states to populist strongmen.
About the Author
Alan Clements is an author, journalist, spoken word artist, and former Buddhist monk-one of the first Westerners ordained in Myanmar, later expelled for exposing the regime's crimes. For decades, he's stood with Burma's pro-democracy movement, including Aung San Suu Kyi, bearing witness through literature and activism.
His work has appeared in The New York Times, The Guardian, TIME, Newsweek, and more.
His books include Burma: The Next Killing Fields?, A Future to Believe In, and The Voice of Hope-a landmark dialogue with Suu Kyi.
Conversation with a Dictator is his most unflinching work to date: a literary confrontation with tyranny, and a call to remember those still imprisoned for speaking truth.
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