Ma Ju(b. 1958): Like her younger contemporary Ma Thida, Ma Ju is a medical doctor by training though more well known as one of Myanmars leading women writers. She is renowned for her position on gender equality and female empowerment, themes often mirrored in her strong female characters and …
Translated in 1996 but not published until 2013, possibly the only novel of Ma Jus available in English. The Other Side of the Wall follows Nhaung Khin Zaw, a young woman who predicts her death will come on her 24th birthday and her slide into depression as the date nears …
The Other Side of the Wall is one of those curious books that you discover in the rounds of the bookshops in Yangon. I found it only once, in Innwa Books on Pansodan I think, and have never seen it for sale since …