KyiMayKaung

Burma, America, The World, Art, Literature, Political Economy through the eyes of a Permanent Exile. "We must take sides. Neutrality helps the oppressor, never the oppressed. Sometimes we must interfere. . . There is so much injustice and suffering crying out for our attention . . . writers and poets, prisoners in so many lands governed by the left and by the right." Elie Wiesel, Nobel Peace Prize Speech, 1986, Oslo. This entire site copyright Kyi May Kaung unless indicated otherwise.

Friday, June 27, 2025

Achingly beautiful--long preview of A Passage North--set in Jaffna

https://www.google.com/books/edition/A_Passage_North/aLhPEAAAQBAJ?hl=en&gbpv=0

The grandmother--grandson interaction is more absorbing than the romance with the Tamil Tiger activist--just hinted at so far.

Reminiscent of Anthony Marra's Bosnia novel--

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Friday, June 27, 2025

Achingly beautiful--long preview of A Passage North--set in Jaffna

Shit--it's not a bloody disease--it's a result of fear of death--major losses like Nabokov's Mother--living during Great Depression--under a junta, losing all.

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