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ကြယ်စင်တံတား ကမ်းပါးနှင်းဖြူ
281 pages, Paperback
First published January 1, 2002
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About the author
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34 books255 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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October 25, 2022
ဘယ်နှစ်ခါ ပြန်ဖတ်ဖတ် ဇာတ်လမ်းထဲမျောပြီး စိတ်လှုပ်ရှားနေမိတုန်းပဲ။ ဇာတ်လမ်းရေးတာသပ်ရပ်ပြီး တင်ပြပုံကဆွဲဆောင်မှုရှိတယ်။ ရေခဲတောင်တွေဆီကိုယ်တိုင် ခရီးထွက်နေရသလို ခံစားရစေပါတယ်။ ပိုချစ်ရတဲ့သူကိုယ်ပဲဖြစ်ပါစေ စာအုပ် ပြီးရင် အကြိုက်ဆုံးသော စာအုပ်ဖြစ်ပါတယ်။
March 13, 2017
A masterpiece of Juu. A must read - at least once in your lifetime.
August 29, 2016
A good book to explore Kachin State.
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