In this interlocking prose web of first-person testimony, novelist,
poet, and playwright Ariel Dorfman relates the struggles of fifty human
rights activists hailing from more than forty countries. Manifesto for
Another World features the words and struggles of internationally
celebrated activists including Vaclav Havel, Baltasar Garzón, Helen
Prejean, and Marian Wright Edelman; and Nobel Prize Laureates the Dalai
Lama, Desmond Tutu, Elie Wiesel, Oscar Arias Sánchez, Rigoberta Menchú
Tum, José Ramos-Horta, and Bobby Muller. Equally moving are the stories
of more than thirty others, unknown and (as yet) unsung beyond their
national boundaries: Kailash Satyarthi, who has spent a lifetime working
to free tens of thousands of victims of child labor in his native India,
and Juliana Dogbadzi, who was sold into sexual slavery by her parents at
age twelve, escaped after seventeen degrading years, and now is devoted
to the liberation of African girls bound in the same terror. From their
ranging voices Dorfman culls the message: freedom from persecution, and
freedom of opportunity, for all. Manifesto for Another World is both a
political testament and a work of art.