ဓားတောင်ကိုကျော်၍ မီးပင်လယ်ကိုဖြတ်မည်

by Mya Than Tint

ဓားတွေက
တောင်တန်းလောက် များတယ်။
မီးလျှံတွေက
ပင်လယ်ပြင်လောက် ကျယ်တယ်။
သည်ဓားတောင်တန်းနှင့်
သည်မီးပင်လယ်ကို
ငါ ကျော်ဖြတ်မယ်။

[တရုတ် အလုပ်သမား လူငယ် တစ်ဦး၏ ကဗျာ တစ်ပုဒ်မှ]

377 pages, Paperback

First published September 1, 1973

About the author

Born Mya Than on 23 May 1929 in Myaing, Pakokku Township, Magway Division, Myanmar, he was the eldest of seven children to Paw Tint and his wife Hlaing. Mya Than Tint entered Rangoon University in 1948, the year Burma gained independence from Great Britain, and received a degree in philosophy, political science, and English literature.

His writing career began in 1949 when his first short novel “Refugee” (ဒုက္ခသည်) was published in Tara (တာရာ) Magazine (No. 21, Vol. 3, 1949). He published many short and full-length novels, documentaries, and translated works in his 50-year writing career. Dataung Ko Kyaw Ywei, Mee Pinle Ko Hpyat Myi (Across the Mountain of Swords and the Sea of Fire) (ဓားတောင်ကိုကျော်၍ မီးပင်လယ်ကိုဖြတ်မယ်) (1973) is considered to be his greatest masterpiece. He also wrote historical documentaries like “Breeze over Taungthaman Lake” (တောင်သမန်အင်းက လေညှင်းဆော်တော့).

Also, as a prolific translator of Western literature into Burmese, Mya Than Tint introduced his readers to world classics like War and Peace (စစ်နှင့် ငြိမ်ချမ်းရေး), Gone with the Wind (လေရူးသုန္သုန္), and Dream of the Red Chamber (ခန်းဆောင်နီအိပ်မက်). He won the Myanmar National Literature Award five times for translation War and Peace(1972), Gone with the Wind (1978), Dream of the Red Chamber (1988), City of Joy (သုခမြို့တော်) (1992), and Beyond Love (အချစ်မိုးကောင်းကင်) (1995).

As a political prisoner, Mya Than Tint was jailed from 1963 to 1972 by Ne Win's military regime that seized power from a democratic government in 1962. He was initially incarcerated in Rangoon's notorious Insein Prison but later transferred with other political prisoners to the Coco Islands penal colony in the Indian Ocean until his release three years later. At the age of 68, he died in his home in Sanchaung Township in Rangoon of a brain hemorrhage after an accidental fall from a staircase in the early morning of February 18, 1998. He was cremated at the Hteinpin cemetery in Rangoon.

Reviews

[Myat Thura Aung · Rating 4 out of 5]

Is this a communist propaganda novel?
Or is this just an adventure novel?
Well,this is both. Not only the novel features the thrilling adventurous survival of Burmese young men who were stuck on an island,it also touches on the topics such as the conflict due to the generation gap between the young and the old ,and the class struggle due to the greedy capitalists exploiting the working class.The author also tried to give life lessons to the audience through the main hero of the story-a young courageous self-sacrificing hardy working class man.Forget about the propaganda.This is a must-read book if you're into Burmese literature.

[Caesar Min · Rating 5 out of 5]

A masterpiece of Myanmar's renown author. It's Myanmar's Robinson Crusoe.

[palme · Rating 1 out of 5]

False God. False Burmese Classic just because it is written by a famous author and have a flashy title. Very Childish and Make Believe Story and Nay Win Era Propaganda. Weakest Story Writing by Mya Than Thint, really showed he is only good at adapting and translating foreign books. This feels like a bad Tut Pi comic adventure (because even Tut Pi books are better than this)

[Koont · Rating 5 out of 5]

I just love it. I cried in the end. It's just so vibrant and powerful book that every Burmese young adult should read, I think. It's just beautifully depicts that it's the good soul and brace heart that matters the most in a person life, ultimately. It also depicts that the reality is, however, very ugly and society is very against to the people who do not have the wealth and eduction. It's a classic in my opinion.

[Kyaw Kyaw Soe · Rating 5 out of 5]

Robert Zemeckis ၾကီး ဒီစာအုပ္ကို ရုပ္ရွင္ျပန္ရိုက္ရင္မိုက္မွာ။

[sushi · Rating 5 out of 5]

Well this is the very first burmese book I've ever read and it is just SO good. I didn't expect this to be THAT good but it turns out amazing. It's well written, adventurous and has strong protagonists. I must admit it's a bit slow at first from ko nandar pov but trust me it gets better and more intriguing.

Well if you are into adventure type, this is the one for you.

[Sai Thiha · Rating 5 out of 5]

good

[May ThaZin · Rating 5 out of 5]

the best book that i've ever read

[May · Rating 3 out of 5]

A while ago....

[Toe Tet · Rating 5 out of 5]

His all books like

[Ko Tho · Rating 4 out of 5]

Nice book for adventure. Knowledge about sea and related survival issues. How to survive guide for physical and mental.

[Kaung Khant · Rating 3 out of 5]

good

[Phyoe Hein Khant · Rating 4 out of 5]

life changing book on top

[Sawlay · Rating 4 out of 5]

i love this book

[Andrew · Rating 5 out of 5]

Masterpiece fr

[Kyaw Zin]

Good

[Aye Aye · Rating 5 out of 5]

သံေခ်ာင္းမဟုတ္ရင္ေတာင္ ရဲျမင့္ျဖစ္ရမယ္။
စိတ္ခြန္အားေပးတဲ့စာအုပ္ပါ

[Thaw Tar · Rating 5 out of 5]

I want to read this book. I think that should educate.