Thursday, September 17, 2015

Your late summer reading--Black Rice-



Black Rice is a Burmese man with very dark skin, almost purple, and almond eyes. What happens when he is captured in an ambush in Burma's delta in 1947, as ethnic strife rages, a year before Burma's Independence from Great Britain? Find out here as K.M. Kaung takes you on a heart stopping journey through life. An intensely flavored pill of a story in 48 pages. A view through oddly made eyes.

"You've got to be taught, to hate and fear, you've got to be taught, from year to year. . . ."

Song lyrics, Rogers and Hammerstein, South Pacific, the Broadway musical.

Invitation to eavesdrop on my "beautiful mind." This story Beast won a prize at the Himal Southasia Inaugural Fiction Fest in 2023.

Big thank you to everyone at Himal, especially Chief Editor Roman Gautam and Marlon Ariyasinghe who did all the liaison, and introduced me o...