Monday, June 24, 2013

K.M.Kaung's novella Black Rice --

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

Burmese riddle verses from The Atlantic 1958

https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/1958/02/some-burmese-riddle-verses/640460/