K.M. Kaung's novella Black Rice is about an extremely dark-skinned man who is adopted by a pale family in Burma. His tormented coming of age coincides with the outbreak of multicolored insurgencies in Burma a year before independence from the British in 1948.
Follow him from the jungle where he goes to escape an unhappy family situation to a surprise event and ending in the gorgeous, lyrical, visual prose of poet and political scientist K.M.Kaung --
http://www.amazon.com/Black-Rice-Novella-K-Kaung/dp/0615797520
