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When she went back to the university where she attended her degree of six years, where she met her first love, she recalled their story - how they first met, how they had been in love - the memories and how she remembered them exactly as if it was yesterday.
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ဂျူး
34 books259 followersJu is a Burmese novelist, well known for her strong, intelligent female characters.
Despite her interest in writing, upon her mother's prodding, she pursued medical studies at the Institute of Medicine, Mandalay. She started writing while in medical school, and her first short story (ရာဇဝင်ထဲမှာမောင့်ကိုထားရစ်ခဲ့) was published in 1979. Her writing career took off in the late 1980s, with her debut novel, Remembrance (အမှတ်တရ), published in 1987.The bestseller novel stirred controversy for endorsing Western existentialist philosophy and portraying cohabiting unwed couples.
She has published fifteen novels (most of them were adapted into films), seven collections of short stories and seven collections of articles on the environment. She currently works as a co-founder of an HIV positive children orphanage and also a participant in the HIV/AIDS Media Initiative and Yadana Metta Foundation. Her writings now focus on environmental conservation.
Despite her interest in writing, upon her mother's prodding, she pursued medical studies at the Institute of Medicine, Mandalay. She started writing while in medical school, and her first short story (ရာဇဝင်ထဲမှာမောင့်ကိုထားရစ်ခဲ့) was published in 1979. Her writing career took off in the late 1980s, with her debut novel, Remembrance (အမှတ်တရ), published in 1987.The bestseller novel stirred controversy for endorsing Western existentialist philosophy and portraying cohabiting unwed couples.
She has published fifteen novels (most of them were adapted into films), seven collections of short stories and seven collections of articles on the environment. She currently works as a co-founder of an HIV positive children orphanage and also a participant in the HIV/AIDS Media Initiative and Yadana Metta Foundation. Her writings now focus on environmental conservation.
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May 18, 2016
Juu is *not* one of my favorite authors from Myanmar, not by a long shot. I find most of her books far from reality, and her characters elite. But, this book, her debut novel, is quite different from her later works. A Mhat Ta Ya is a lovely and touching tale of A girl who was dumped by her boyfriend because she's too, ah, indepedent. The plot is simple, yet beautifully written and the quotes are tearjerker for those softhearted, including me. So, a 5 star rating for me. A must read.
November 7, 2017
A girl I know borrowed this book from the library and she said she was tired out by all the usage of "maung" (ေမာင္) words in the book. She asked me to give it a try as well. I didn't know that this was the debut novel of the author until I saw the older reviews. So anyway, here we go.
It was such a quick read. Either the story was short, or since it was written in my native language, I finished the book in a couple of hours.
I did not have any problem with the writing. It was very descriptive and the book made me want to go to Mandalay and visit all those places mentioned in it. But I did have a problem with the characters. The main female character was an educated young woman who was also open-minded, understanding and non-conventional. The male character sounded like a douche-bag who was sexist, old-fashioned, controlling and had a bad temper. It made me cringe every time the male MC said something as to control what the female MC wore, or who she hung out with, etc. But the female character was so hopelessly in love with the guy that she worshiped him. She put up with all those treatments in the name of "love". *roll eyes* Since I've read books like "Why Men Love Bitches", I couldn't stop thinking throughout the book that this character was definitely the nicest of the "nice girls" from WMLB. Oh. My. God. Can you believe it? I was so annoyed with her to the point that I wanted to shake her from the shoulders and yell "stop".
If I were younger, I would have worshiped this book for being so "romantic". But now I couldn't stand the characters. I'm sorry but this book wasn't for me.
PS. Even though I read the book two days ago, I don't remember the characters' names anymore.
It was such a quick read. Either the story was short, or since it was written in my native language, I finished the book in a couple of hours.
I did not have any problem with the writing. It was very descriptive and the book made me want to go to Mandalay and visit all those places mentioned in it. But I did have a problem with the characters. The main female character was an educated young woman who was also open-minded, understanding and non-conventional. The male character sounded like a douche-bag who was sexist, old-fashioned, controlling and had a bad temper. It made me cringe every time the male MC said something as to control what the female MC wore, or who she hung out with, etc. But the female character was so hopelessly in love with the guy that she worshiped him. She put up with all those treatments in the name of "love". *roll eyes* Since I've read books like "Why Men Love Bitches", I couldn't stop thinking throughout the book that this character was definitely the nicest of the "nice girls" from WMLB. Oh. My. God. Can you believe it? I was so annoyed with her to the point that I wanted to shake her from the shoulders and yell "stop".
If I were younger, I would have worshiped this book for being so "romantic". But now I couldn't stand the characters. I'm sorry but this book wasn't for me.
PS. Even though I read the book two days ago, I don't remember the characters' names anymore.
September 10, 2022
ဂျူး၏ နာမည်ကြီးလုံးချင်းစာအုပ်မှာ အတော်ဖတ်လို့ကောင်း၏ သို့သော် Novel အနေဖြင့်ထက် Poem အနေဖြင့်ရေးထားသလိုဖြစ်၏။ ဆရာမကား ရင်မှရင်းသော စကားလုံးတွေကို တလုံးချင်း တလုံးချင်း သီချယ်ထားပြီး ဒိုင်ယာရီစာအုပ်သဖွယ်ရေးသားထား၏။ ကျနော်အနေဖြင့်မူ ဇတ်လမ်းထက် အရေးအသားကို အကြိုက်ဆုံးဖြစ်၏။
ဇတ်လမ်းအရမူ စာမဖတ်ပေမဖတ်၊ အလှအပတွင်လည်းခံစားမှုအားနည်းလွန်းလှသော ယောကျ်ားတယောက်အား Independent ဖြစ်သော၊ အနုပညာခံစားမှုအားကောင်းသောမိန်းမတယောက်က ပစ်၍ကြွေကာ ချစ်မိသောအခါ ကြုံကြိုက်တတ်သည့်သဘောမျိုးဖြစ်၏။ ထိုယောကျ်ားမျိုးကို ချစ်မိသည့်မိန်းမသည်သာ အမှားကိုရွေးချယ်မိခြင်းဟု မညာမတာပြောရမည်ဖြစ်၏။
ဇတ်လမ်းအရမူ စာမဖတ်ပေမဖတ်၊ အလှအပတွင်လည်းခံစားမှုအားနည်းလွန်းလှသော ယောကျ်ားတယောက်အား Independent ဖြစ်သော၊ အနုပညာခံစားမှုအားကောင်းသောမိန်းမတယောက်က ပစ်၍ကြွေကာ ချစ်မိသောအခါ ကြုံကြိုက်တတ်သည့်သဘောမျိုးဖြစ်၏။ ထိုယောကျ်ားမျိုးကို ချစ်မိသည့်မိန်းမသည်သာ အမှားကိုရွေးချယ်မိခြင်းဟု မညာမတာပြောရမည်ဖြစ်၏။
April 12, 2016
The first book that shake the writers' world. A female writer who wrote about 'living together' in 80s. She does have dare movement. :)
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January 27, 2023This is my second time reading this book and I still don't like it. I don't like both characters, especially the submissive nature of SSH. Maung is a two-timer and she should have dumped him a long time ago.
July 6, 2020
My first Burmese fiction and I fell in love with the way it's written. The love story from the perspective of the main lady was so tragic yet beautiful. But oh, how I dislike the male character and his toxic masculinity. Their love was never going to work because she is truly herself and her မောင် could never accept her for who she truly is. Nevertheless, I love this sorrowful love story and the way she recounted their love story.
February 28, 2019
Read this long time ago coz my crush liked this book a lot 😅 well anyway at least this was my first book of the author , not very fond of the characters coz they seem too weak but the dialogues are not bad.
May 23, 2022
Hmmmm Everyone said they like this and even Sayama called this as her masterpiece.BUT, I DON'T LIKE.I don't like the personalities of characters.I think I dont like if female lead is too weak and give in too much to a freaking naughty man.
July 6, 2023
I hate men.
September 27, 2023
Overrated
June 28, 2024
I don’t think that I can meet with the guy who cheated on me like စုစုထွေး did. I can feel how she felt but I’m not strong enough like her. Mg is totally a mf cheater I hate his character so much. Girls don’t be stupid you can forgive them but never forget what they did on you how they treated you how they let you serviced by yourself and please value yourself. Don’t be စုစုထွေး she’s probably be a forgiven type it’s ok to forgive but treating them like they didn’t do anything on you is not totally ok. We all sometimes acted like her but don’t be ever act like her. I can relate all the things she felt but I hate when she treated him like they used to. Overall, this novel is heartbreaking but she wrote every single word with her deeply emotions I can see through from her writing.
December 6, 2022
'မောင့်ကို ကျွန်မ မေ့ပျောက်၍ မရအောင် ချစ်ခဲ့သည်။ မေ့ပျောက်ဖို့ မကြိုးစားချင်လောက်အောင် မက်မောတွယ်တာခဲ့သည်။ နာကြည်းမုန်းတီး၍ မရလောက်အောင် မြတ်နိုးတမ်းတခဲ့သည်။'
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၈နှစ်လောက်ကြာမှ နောက်တခါပြန်ဖတ်ဖြစ်ပေမယ့် ဒီစာအုပ်သေးသေးလေးကို ပီးအောင်ဖတ်ဖို့ တပတ်အတွင်း ခနခန break ယူခဲ့ရတယ်..
စုစုထွေးဟာ မောင့်ကို ဆုံးရှုံးဖို့ မတွန့်ဆုတ်ခဲ့ပေမယ့် ကိုယ့်အတွက်မဟုတ်တော့တာတောင် မောင့်ကို အဆုံးထိချစ်ပေးနေဦးမှာပါပဲ..
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၈နှစ်လောက်ကြာမှ နောက်တခါပြန်ဖတ်ဖြစ်ပေမယ့် ဒီစာအုပ်သေးသေးလေးကို ပီးအောင်ဖတ်ဖို့ တပတ်အတွင်း ခနခန break ယူခဲ့ရတယ်..
စုစုထွေးဟာ မောင့်ကို ဆုံးရှုံးဖို့ မတွန့်ဆုတ်ခဲ့ပေမယ့် ကိုယ့်အတွက်မဟုတ်တော့တာတောင် မောင့်ကို အဆုံးထိချစ်ပေးနေဦးမှာပါပဲ..
October 27, 2024
Oh, what a tragic love story! By the way, this novel would pair perfectly with Taylor's song "Enchanted."
**Spoiler:** Never trust a guy blindly or love him with all your heart, even if you're certain the two of you will end up marrying each other.
**Spoiler:** Never trust a guy blindly or love him with all your heart, even if you're certain the two of you will end up marrying each other.
April 21, 2020
Read more than two times but still catching at each read.
March 19, 2023
(3.5/5) for me tbh
August 28, 2023
MY HEART IS RIPPED APART AND WILL NEVER BE FIXED. EVERYBODY SHOULD READ THIS SO WE CAN SUFFER TOGETHER. I LOVE IT!
September 6, 2023
ဘယ်နှခေါက်ဖတ်ဖတ် ဘယ်ချိန်ဖတ်ဖတ်
အကြိုက်ဆုံးသော စာအုပ်ပါ
အကြိုက်ဆုံးသော စာအုပ်ပါ
December 2, 2023
It got a heavy usage of ‘maung’ in every single page. And I do not like the male character at all. However, even two or three sentences attracted me to read this book.
Want to read
March 18, 2024ကက
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January 23, 2025
Awesome
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February 3, 2025
မိန်းမတစ်ယောက်ရဲ့အချိန်ကိုမဖြုန်းပါနဲ့
October 13, 2025
A very heart-wrenching book that I felt so much sadness while reading this....
February 13, 2025
3.5 stars
* spoilers *
Drenched in Mandalay rain and in her own yearning for Maung, Su Su Htwe processes her heartache over her ex as she returns to his (now hers) old house from their med school campus couple days.
This is undoubtedly Ju's most popular novel and I can see why. 1980's Mandalay came alive under her pen strokes. Ju writing always has that cinematic feel to it and the book from start to finish felt like a beautiful film. But the best part about A Mhat Ta Ya is how emotionally honest this novel is. The protagonist is fully self aware that she's still pathetically in love with her ex from her university days, enough to keep his house rented 3 years after they've broken up and him married to the girl he cheated on her with. Both Su and Maung are extremely dislikable, especially Maung who has zero redeeming quality even when reading from Su Su Htwe's pov. She bends over backwards for him when he's being a jerk and when she catches him cheating, she pays for their table (since he's broke) instead of confronting his ass.
He came back to "apologise" years later and they held each other and when she asked "how about your wife?" He practically said "she wouldn't know. she's dumb, unlike you. If I didn't have this much over her, I wouldn't have married her" and then they giggled over some joke.
Not my favourite Ju, not even top 5, but Ju making me emotional over this type of character is hell of a feat.
* spoilers *
Drenched in Mandalay rain and in her own yearning for Maung, Su Su Htwe processes her heartache over her ex as she returns to his (now hers) old house from their med school campus couple days.
This is undoubtedly Ju's most popular novel and I can see why. 1980's Mandalay came alive under her pen strokes. Ju writing always has that cinematic feel to it and the book from start to finish felt like a beautiful film. But the best part about A Mhat Ta Ya is how emotionally honest this novel is. The protagonist is fully self aware that she's still pathetically in love with her ex from her university days, enough to keep his house rented 3 years after they've broken up and him married to the girl he cheated on her with. Both Su and Maung are extremely dislikable, especially Maung who has zero redeeming quality even when reading from Su Su Htwe's pov. She bends over backwards for him when he's being a jerk and when she catches him cheating, she pays for their table (since he's broke) instead of confronting his ass.
He came back to "apologise" years later and they held each other and when she asked "how about your wife?" He practically said "she wouldn't know. she's dumb, unlike you. If I didn't have this much over her, I wouldn't have married her" and then they giggled over some joke.
Not my favourite Ju, not even top 5, but Ju making me emotional over this type of character is hell of a feat.
March 27, 2023
Tragic
June 14, 2025
မှတ်မိနေသေးတယ် စာအုပ်တွေ အကြောင်းပြောကြလို့ ဟိုဆရာမဂျူးရဲ့ အမှတ်တရ လေ လို့ စကားစမိတာနဲ့
"နေဦး နေဦး ထက်ထက်က ...
အအေးဆိုင်မှာ မောင် date နေတာ မိတာကို အအေးဖိုးရှင်းပေးမယ့် အဖွဲ့ကလား🌚❓❓
$$$ပြသနာ ရှာမယ့် အဖွဲ့ကလား ❓❓❓
အဲ့တာအရင်ပြော အဖွဲ့တူမှာ စကားဆက်ပြောမယ် .... နို့မို့ဆို ဆက်ပြောလို့ မဖြစ်ဝူး ဆိုပြီး ဂျိုပါ / မပါ ခွဲခဲ့ကြဖူးသေးတယ် 😉😁🤭
အမှတ်တရ ဆိုသည့်အတိုင်း တကယ့်အမှတ်တရတွေပါဘဲ " အမှတ်တရ"ထဲမှ စုစုထွေး နဲ့ မောင်
မောင်ရဲ့ နာမည်ရင်း ဘာမှန်း မသိလိုက်ဘဲနဲ့ကို ဆွဲခဲ့ရတာ 🤧
"""တခြားတစ်ယာက်ကို အစားထိုးထားပြီး မောင့်ကို မမေ့နိုင်တာနဲ့စာရင် လွတ်"လပ်"မမေ့နိုင်တာက ပိုသင်တော်မယ်လို တွေးမိတဲ့အထိ သိပ်ခိုင်လွန်းတဲ့ သံယောဇဉ်ကြိုး...
ဒါပေမဲ့.....
- " ကြိုးတစ်ချောင်းဟာ ဖြတ်သင်တဲ့ အချိန်ရောက်လာရင်တော့ ဖြတ်ကို ဖြတ်ရမှာပေါ့လေ """
ကိုယ့်အတွက်တော့ အဲ့စာသားလေး အဲ့ Closure လေးက အသက် ....🤍
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February 17, 2019
ဇာတ္လမ္း ကို သိပ္မႀကိဳက္ဘူး
ဒါေပမယ့္ အေရးအသား နဲ႔ စကားေျပာ အပိုင္းေလးေတြ
တခ်ိဴ႕ ေနရာေလးေတြေတာ္ အေတာ္အတန္ သေဘာက်တယ္..
ဇာတ္ေကာင္ က ခံစားလြန္းေနတယ္လို႔ ထင္တယ္
ဒါေပမယ့္ အေရးအသား နဲ႔ စကားေျပာ အပိုင္းေလးေတြ
တခ်ိဴ႕ ေနရာေလးေတြေတာ္ အေတာ္အတန္ သေဘာက်တယ္..
ဇာတ္ေကာင္ က ခံစားလြန္းေနတယ္လို႔ ထင္တယ္
January 12, 2025
How could he??? How could he???
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May 27, 2019Great
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