The 12 poems from the eponymous title have been scoured from among many of Aung Cheimts works, dating back to 1995 and are thematically linked to seasons. Many are sparse, some just mere thoughts taken to paper, neither epic nor fantastical. Maung Tha Noe, once again, has proved his talents, in an effortless translation that […]
As the eponymous k states in the prologue, this is not a book of his life but rather of Burma in the 1920s, and yet it inevitably returns to him, and his family, his friends as they navigate a turbulent time in Myanmar, a time of literary renaissance and anti-colonial political awakenings …
A slim tour of famous buildings and sites in Yangon. While there is a loose theme tying the book together one of buildings and their purpose the string is slack and fails to pull the seemingly arbitrary architectural samples in a coherent manner …
Originally titled War, Love and Prison in Burmese, the English title seems truer to the core beliefs of the author, a man known as an advocate for the working class …
A collection of fifty short articles published in the mid to late 1960s in the Working Peoples Daily newspaper. While most anthologised articles from Myanmar rarely have a thematic identity, this particular collection, compiled by Win Pes son, is an extreme jumble of thoughts …