Hor
hè hor hè hor hè.
Mothi gasps for breath, panics as he runs from the
Military Intelligence.
It is the first day of the infamous clampdown on the
Burmese pro-democracy movement of 1988.
Gunshots and screams come from the direction of Sulé
Pagoda Road.
It smells of blood and dust.
Thus begins Mothi Awgoke’s journey into exile on the
Burma-Thai Border.
He can travel everywhere but to his beloved native
country.
At the height of international attention on the Burmese
plight, under the military junta in its 26th year of stranglehold on
Burma, he even manages to go on a 21 nation tour.
Now Mothi needs to leave.
He has already been arrested.
But the secret agents only knew the name on his
National Registration Card, not his nom de guerre.
As he runs near Bogyoke Market, a girl in a white
Mercedes screeches to a halt, tells him to jump in.
The automatic locks on the car doors click shut.
He has never been in a luxury car.
Never before has he encountered an automatic lock.
Is this woman an MI?
*
Thus begins Mothi’s journey into the unknown.
Strangers help him.
But it’s not all hunky dory; not all romance and
excitement.
Betrayal stalks him, sometimes gets him.
Will he at last find peace, marry, grow old?
Elegantly written over half a decade, based on
extensive research and eye witness reports, Wolf: A Novel of Love and Betrayal is the first
ever fiction piece set in contemporary Burma.
A vivid surreal world, where everything is magnified
as Mothi operates, often in crisis mode, against those who would like to shut
him down for good.
A political thriller and a cross-cultural romance,
Wolf grabs you by the collar and never lets go till its surprising dénouement.
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