An Unlikely Prisoner
How an eternal optimist found hope in Myanmar’s most notorious jail
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4.8 • 9 Ratings
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Publisher Description
‘Australia’s most unlikely political prisoner . . . is known as a person of deep optimism, bubbling enthusiasm and infectious warmth.’
Melissa Crouch, Sydney Morning Herald
For 650 days Sean Turnell was held in Myanmar’s terrifying Insein Prison on the trumped-up charge of being a spy. In An Unlikely Prisoner he recounts how an impossibly cheerful professor of economics, whose idea of an uncomfortable confrontation was having to tell a student that their essay was ‘not really that good’, ended up in one of the most notorious prisons in South-East Asia. And how he not only survived his lengthy incarceration, but left with his sense of humour intact, his spirit unbroken and love in his heart.
'What [Sean Turnell] endured in his 650 days of incarceration is something that no human being should have to endure, yet he has done it with grace and, even in inhumane conditions, with profound humanity.'
Prime Minister Anthony Albanese
Customer Reviews
A foreign hero of Myanmar’s Democracy Movement
An author is a hero, non-citizen of Myanmar, actively playing as a key to frame Myanmar’s economic development during civilian government before the military coup. This book is showcasing his true prison experiences under military regime and disclosure of Myanmar Military’s atrocities over their own civilians.
Worth to own his book as a milestone and true history of Myanmar Pro Democracy Movement against dictatorship.