Irrepressible Spirit

by Susan Kulkin

Narrates personal testimonies of men and women who have experienced human rights abuses and presents accounts of human rights workers and of Human Rights Watch. This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0399227628
• ISBN13: 9780399227622
• Release Date: May 1996
• Publisher: Putnam Publishing Group
• Length: 230 Pages
• Weight: 1.13 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.8" x 8.6"
• Age Range: 12 to 17 years
• Grade Range: Grades 7 to 12

Customer Reviews

Irrepressible Spirit

"Even today, when nobody else has a car, my father has three cars. He has two motorcycles and two houses. In my country, people are sentenced to four to seven years in prison if they are caught with fighting cocks. My father has fighting dogs and fighting cocks. It's legal for my father." (David Moya/Cuba)"One afternoon, I was standing by the monument speaking to a half million people. I was speaking very excitingly. I was passionate. At some point, I realized that I was uttering the paragraphs and sentences that I had read a long time ago in my grandfather's unpublished books." (Li Lu/China)"Lin Lin did not know what kind of work she was supposed to do until a man started toughing her breasts and body." (unnamed Burmese girl)Here are true stories told by these and other young people around the world to Human Rights Activists. Susan Kuklin brings forth each story with conflict and characterization not often attempted in non-fiction. I read each and every story of hope, courage, and despair. I could not put the book down to the end.