Moe Linn – Up Close

There is no shortage of books on the market that delve into the life of Daw Aung San Suu Kyi, Peter Popham’s ‘The Lady and the Peacock’ and his more recent ‘The Lady and the Generals’, Justin Wintle’s ‘Perfect Hostage’, Bertil Lintner’s ‘Aung San Suu Kyi and Burma’s Struggle for Democracy’ among them.

Scrimped and salvaged from scraps of letters, memories of older acquaintances and, if the authors were fortunate, a brief encounter with The Lady herself, these books have helped in the idealis...