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  • An Unlikely Prisoner

  • How an Eternal Optimist Found Hope in Myanmar’s Most Notorious Jail
  • By: Sean Turnell
  • Narrated by: Sean Turnell
  • Length: 8 hrs and 1 min

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Summary

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.

©2023 Sean Turnell (P)2023 Penguin Random House Australia Audio

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'Australia's most unlikely political prisoner...is known as a person of deep optimism, bubbling enthusiasm and infectious warmth.' Melissa Crouch, Sydney Morning Herald

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