Thursday, June 05, 2014

Book description of my novel Wolf, coming soon--



Wolf:  A Novel of Love and Betrayal

On 18th September 1988, as the clampdown on the Burmese pro-democracy movement begins, Mothi Awegoke, a student leader, is saved by a young woman in a white Mercedes, as the junta tries to shut him down for good.

Follow Wolf from the horrors of the Rangoon streets to the Thai-Burma border and the jungle, to the great cities of the world and their slums on a heart-stopping journey.

Wolf has garnered rave reviews, including from Amir--author of Zahra's Paradise, a graphic novel set during the Iran Green Revolution, and Debbi Mack, New York Times best-selling author of the Sam McCrae series.

Kyi May Kaung (K.M.Kaung) is the author of the novellas Black Rice, The Rider of Crocodiles, The Lovers, FGM and a short story collection, No Crib for a Bed.
She has won a Fulbright Fellowship, was a Pew finalist in literature twice and won the William Carlos Williams Award of the Academy of American Poets.  Her play Shaman won a Pennsylvania Council on the Arts Award while still a one paragraph concept, and as a two act play was praised by renowned playwright Edward Albee.  Wolf is her first novel.
Kyi holds a Ph.D. in Political Economy from the University of Pennsylvania and divides her time between the United States and Southeast Asia.