Sadaik Short Reviews: Pieces and Mixed

This was a difficult book to read. As the title suggests, the pieces are mixed, meandering from barely contained rage to almost unintelligible thoughts. The verses are short, often too short. Many just mere scatterings of words …

Some are profound, a memory of the dates of political awakenings while others seem included simply to fill a page. The bi-lingual translation is appreciated, to see the two scripts side by side where they belong, but there is an inescapable thinness, to both the idea and its conclusion, which makes me wonder: is this it?

Pieces and Mixed

Title: Pieces and Mixed

Author: Lynn Htat Shin

Translator: Mann Thit Noe

Published Date: 2013

(Sadaik Shorts is a series of very short reviews of fiction and non-fiction from Myanmar writers in English)