မိန်းမတစ်ယောက်ရဲ့ဖွင့်ဟဝန်ခံချက်

by ဂျူး

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About the author

Ju 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.

Reviews

[Yamin · Rating 2 out of 5]

Rampant sexism is unbearable.

- a selfish, misogynist, controlling, jealous, insecure guy
- a "smart", strong girl who thinks she is feminist but actually harbouring internalised misogyny
- a fragile musculinity
- a supposedly-smart woman who could have easily seen how the guy is OBVIOUSLY not a feminist
- a man who use the fact that his woman fell in love with him while she was involved with someone else, to repeatedly use it against her as a morality measure and shame her all her life
- repeated usage of gendered words to continuously highlight and ACCEPT gender stereotypes.

It triggered me to the bones that this was written in 21st century.
Reading this book was like eating gravels mixed with seashells.

(Curious about contrasting opinions.)

[Thin San · Rating 3 out of 5]

You might hate me for this review.
I will be honest. Some people disliked this book because of the male protagonist, Yu Maw. But I don't feel the same way. First of all, the characters are so real. They are not perfect and flawless. This is not the book about a handsome, rich male lead who falls head over heels for the girl. Yu Maw is insecure; it's a fact. You'd notice he seems to care TOO MUCH about what other people think because he lets his insecurity influence him. That's why he tries hard to study abroad and gaslight the girl.
On the other hand, Thet Hnin Eain's decision to get married early leads to a problem because Yu Maw has already told her his plan, and she agrees. Worse, she sent the marriage contract to Yu Maw's mother. And I don't follow how Yu Maw hides the fact he marries Thet Hnin Eain from his mother. That's so disrespectful to his partner. Thet Hnin Eain tries her best to keep this relationship with Yu Maw, and Yu Maw does the same, but they are different in characters. You cannot just walk away from a person you love. It takes numerous realizations to confront the situation, or the relationship one's in is toxic. So, I can understand Thet Hnin Eain. I don't blame any of them. When you look at both sides and their situations, you'll understand them. But I hate that Yu Maw blames Thet Hnin Eain for making him a "Kyar Ku Li" whenever they argue. He's involved in it too.
Of course, I can't entirely agree with all the logic of those characters, but I don't forget they are humans, too. If you read every line and every dialogue carefully, you'd know almost everything they say to each other resembles real-life situations.

[Julie In Wonderland · Rating 2 out of 5]

I read this at the recommendation of my friends, some of whom worship this book.
The first thought that came to me was a sense of incredulity that a smart woman- a doctor would suffer this much to cling to an out and proud misogynist. Her past is used as a stick to beat her with. Her degree, her work- both positive attributes in other more civilised societies, are labelled as undesirable. There is nothing this emotionally abusive asshole won’t say to undermine her and she lets him walk all over her. I don’t get why this book is so revered by fans. Made me not want to pick up another book of hers ever again.

[Aung Oo Sak · Rating 4 out of 5]

အတ္တကြီးတဲ့သူနဲ့ မာနကြီးတဲ့သူ နှစ်​ယောက်ရဲ့ အချစ်​ရေးနဲ့ အိမ်​​ထောင်​​ရေးတစ်ခုက ဘယ်​လောက်ထိ ပူ​လောင်နိုင်စွမ်းရှိလဲဆိုတာကို ပြသွားနိုင်တဲ့စာအုပ်တစ်အုပ်ပဲ...

တစ်ချို့​အပိုင်း​တွေမှာ ဆရာမဂျူးရဲ့ အ​ရေးအသားက တို​တောင်းပြီး ပြတ်သားလွန်းတဲ့အခါကျ​တော့ ​ခေါင်းထဲမှာ ဇာတ်​ကောင်ရဲ့ ခံစားချက်နဲ့ ဟန်အမူအရာကို​ဖော်ရခက်တာ​လေး​​တွေ​တော့ရှိတယ်...

အချစ်ကို ​အောက်ဆုံးအဆင့်မှာထားတဲ့ ​ဒေါက်တာသက်နှင်းအိမ်ရဲ့ ဦးစား​ပေးမှုက ယု​မော်နဲ့​တွေ့သွားတဲ့အခါမှာ ​လျှပ်တစ်ပြတ်ဆန်ဆန် ​​ပြောင်းလဲသွားတာက​တော့ ဇာတ်ရှိန်အတတ်ခဲ့ရဆုံး အပိုင်း​လေး​​တွေ​ပေါ့

[Thuzar T Win · Rating 5 out of 5]

The best of her writing.

[Aung Aung · Rating 5 out of 5]

I read

[Hla Thein · Rating 4 out of 5]

good book

[Shine Ko]

ဖဇ

[Lin Kyaw]

is the best novel ever

[Min Khant]

ဖတ်ချင်တယ်

[Shoon Htet]

အချစ်အကြောင်ကို အများကြီးနားလည်ခဲ့ ပြီးယောက်ကျားတွေနဲ့ မိန်းမတွေကြားဘယ်သူကပိုချစ်တယ်ဆိုတာကိုကောင်းကောင်းကြီးနားလည်ခဲ့တယ် အရမ်းကိုကြိုက်တဲ့ စာအုပ်တစ်အုပ်ပေါ့

[Phuu Thit · Rating 3 out of 5]

Juu is a good writer, that’s all I can say.

[RaLia]

good!

[Khin Khin]

Knin

[Sara Arcane · Rating 5 out of 5]

Good

[Lynn Niño · Rating 5 out of 5]

ဖတ္ဖူးသမွ် ဂ်ဴး စာအုပ္ေတြထဲမွာေတာ့ အႀကိဳက္ဆံုးပါပဲ။
ဖတ္ၿပီးေတာ့ သူငယ္ခ်င္းေတြနဲ႔ ျပန္ေျပာျဖစ္၊ ဇာတ္လမ္းထဲမွာ ပါတဲ့ ေမာ္လၿမိဳင္ ေတာ္ငေပၚတန္းက ေရညိွေတြနဲ႔ ေလွကားႀကီးဆီ သြားၾကည့္ျဖစ္ခဲ့တဲ့ ၀တၳဳ ေပါ့။
စာအုပ္ရဲ႕ နာမည္ အတိုင္းပါပဲ၊ က်ေနာ္တို႔ ေယာက်ာ္းေတြဘယ္ေတာ့မွ မသိႏိုင္မဲ့ မိန္းမ တစ္ေယာက္ ေတြ႕ႀကံဳခံစားမႈ ေတြ အမ်ားႀကီးထဲ က အခ်ိဳ႕နည္းနည္းေပါ့။
ဒီစာအုပ္နဲ႔ တြဲလ်က္ ကံၾကမၼာကို မယံုၾကည္ၾကသူမ်ားကိုပါ ႀကိဳက္မိတယ္။

[Daisy · Rating 3 out of 5]

ကြိုက်မလိုလိုနဲ့ တကယ်မကြိုက်တဲ့စာအုပ်
After third time reading, မဆိုးးပါဘူး ရသမြောက်တဲ့စာအုပ်တစ်အုပ် ဒါပေမဲ့အဲ့လောက်ရှုပ်ထွေးတဲ့ဒရာမာတွေ နဲ့အဆင်ပြေအောင်လုပ်နိုင်ရက်သားနဲ့အဆင်မပြေအောင်လုပ်နေကြတဲ့ လူနှစ်ယောက်အကြောင်းဖတ်ရတာ စိတ်ထဲတော်တော်အဆင်မပြေဘူး ကိုယ့် type လည်း မဟုတ်ဘူး