ကြယ်ကြွေတို့ရဲ့ အတောင်ပံ

by ဂျူး

မေမေ..
လောကကြီးမှာ
ကြွေသွားပြီးတဲ့ ပန်းတွေ အများကြီး။
အဲဒီထဲမှာ ပန်းပြန်ပွင့်တဲ့ ပန်း
မရှိဘူးထင်လား ။
တစ်ချို့ပန်းပွင့်တွေက
တစ်စစီး ဖဲ့ချွေခံလိုက်ရပေမယ့်
ပန်းပြန်ပွင့်နိုင်တဲ့ သတ္တိတွေရှိတယ်။

233 pages, Paperback

First published March 1, 2007

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

[Ye Lin Aung · Rating 4 out of 5]

This is comparably simple story however, the ending is pretty nice.
I'd like to mention the the quote from the back cover. Beautiful, as always.
"မေမေ..
လောကကြီးမှာ
ကြွေသွားပြီးတဲ့ ပန်းတွေ အများကြီး။
အဲဒီထဲမှာ ပန်းပြန်ပွင့်တဲ့ ပန်း
မရှိဘူးထင်လား ။
တစ်ချို့ပန်းပွင့်တွေက
တစ်စစီး ဖဲ့ချွေခံလိုက်ရပေမယ့်
ပန်းပြန်ပွင့်နိုင်တဲ့ သတ္တိတွေရှိတယ်"

[Thinn · Rating 3 out of 5]

A woman was rapped by the guy she was not in love.
The love of her life kept his love till he die and protect her dignity.
A woman than raised her son without anyone help but she never said a bad thing about the father's of the child, who was the rapist.
No, this is not a love story but it is about forgiveness.

[May Sun Aung · Rating 4 out of 5]

I think the ending is perfect for the story. Did not think this little book would give me this much feels.
And although it is not the main theme of the story, I really admire the protagonist, Min Nyan and his accomplishments. Reading about those somewhat gave me strength to continue trying to achieve things that I'm passionate about.

[Jasmine]

I really loved the ending. Especially when they went to ask about Aye Nyo and found out that he died, I can not help but cry. There are things I hate about this book as well. The girl was raped and was blamed for that which makes me really angry, but then I think that it portrayed how our society is or at least how it was years ago. About nyan and wai lin's love story too, I have so many questions, but then I tell myself its about the decisions they made , how they chose to live. Anyway, I love reading reviews after reading a book. It is like having conversations with you guys!🥲