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Not Out of Hate - A Novel of Burma (Paperback)
Ma Ma Lay; Edited by William H. Frederick; Translated by Margaret Aung-Thwin; Introduction by Anna Allott; Afterword by Robert E. Vore
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"Not Out of Hate" is the first Burmese novel to be translated into
English and published outside of Myanmar. It offers unusual
insights into the social history of the late colonial period. Set
in pre-World War II Burmese society, the story centers on the
relationship and marriage of seventeen-year-old Way Way with U Saw
Han, a much older Burmese agent for a British trading company. The
subtle but deep misunderstandings they experience mirror the
cultural confrontation of Eastern and Western values in modern
society, still evident in Burmese life today. The work is also a
poignant and pointed commentary on a young woman's struggle against
a suffocating love.
This diary, begun after the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor and
covering the invasion of Burma up to June 1942, is a moving
night-by-night account of the dilemmas faced by the well-loved and
prolific Burmese author, Theippan Maung Wa (a pseudonym of U Sein
Tin) and his family. At the time of the Japanese invasion, U Sein
Tin was deputy secretary in the Ministry of Defense. An
Oxford-trained member of the Indian Civil Service, working for the
British administration on the eve of the invasion, he was living
with his wife and three small children in Rangoon; he felt
threatened and extremely fearful of the breakdown of law and order
that would follow the invasion.
"Wartime in Burma "is a stirring memoir that presents a personal
account of Theippan's feelings about the war, his anxiety for the
safety of his family, the bombing of Rangoon, and what happened to
them during the next six chaotic months of the British retreat.
Eventually the author and his family left Rangoon to live in a
remote forest in Upper Burma with several other Burmese civil
servants, their staff, and valuable possessions--rich pickings for
robbers. His diary ends abruptly on June 5, his forty-second
birthday, when he was murdered by a gang of Burmese bandits. The
diary pages, scattered on the floor of the house, were rescued by
his wife and eventually published in Burma in 1966.
What survives is a unique account that shines new light on the
military retreat from Burma.
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