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သက်တံ့တို့ဖြင့်ရက်ဖွဲ့ ချစ်သူရဲ့ ခြုံလွှာ
အခ်ိဳ့အတြက္ေတာ့
အခ်စ္သည္ ျခံုလႊာတစ္စလို ပါးလ်
သို့စဥ္လ်က္ ပိတ္ဆီး
နီးေနလည္း ေဝးသည္သို့
လွမ္းေနလည္း ေရာက္ႏိုင္ခဲဘိျခင္း
လတစ္စင္းႏွင့္အျပိုင္။
အခ်စ္သည္ ျခံုလႊာတစ္စလို ပါးလ်
သို့စဥ္လ်က္ ပိတ္ဆီး
နီးေနလည္း ေဝးသည္သို့
လွမ္းေနလည္း ေရာက္ႏိုင္ခဲဘိျခင္း
လတစ္စင္းႏွင့္အျပိုင္။
354 pages, Paperback
First published June 1, 2018
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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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July 12, 2018
The story revolves around a beautiful, hand-made blanket, two sisters, and daughter of the elder sister. Each chapter goes back and forth between the characters and different timelines.
Full of facts about how a non-power loom (lat yat kan) and how the cotton is hand-washed and dyed. Given that I just came back from the village which business is around loom and fabric, I could relate and appreciate all of that. Until...
BELOW ARE (MAYBE) SPOILERS FOR YOU. I suggest you read it only after you've read the book.
I hate the feeling that I know how this book is going to end terribly because it's been dragging on for so long and there is like 10 pages left until the end of the book. And it ended so abruptly that I don't want to live on this planet anymore. Okay. I am exaggerating but if you have read it, you would understand me. It doesn't give me closures. It doesn't continue with the newly created character story just before the ending. And ... man some stuff is just so clingy and not my cup of tea at all.
Full of facts about how a non-power loom (lat yat kan) and how the cotton is hand-washed and dyed. Given that I just came back from the village which business is around loom and fabric, I could relate and appreciate all of that. Until...
BELOW ARE (MAYBE) SPOILERS FOR YOU. I suggest you read it only after you've read the book.
I hate the feeling that I know how this book is going to end terribly because it's been dragging on for so long and there is like 10 pages left until the end of the book. And it ended so abruptly that I don't want to live on this planet anymore. Okay. I am exaggerating but if you have read it, you would understand me. It doesn't give me closures. It doesn't continue with the newly created character story just before the ending. And ... man some stuff is just so clingy and not my cup of tea at all.
August 7, 2018
I've just finished it but I skipped some or nearly half of the chapters because I got bored. It's like the author wants to say many things but she doesn't want to say what happened to each main character she has introduced in the book. Why bother writing about crushes and first love when the readers don't know what happened later?
When I think about her last book, I only remember the lavender fields. I think I will only remember the handmade weaving when I think about this book in the future.
When I think about her last book, I only remember the lavender fields. I think I will only remember the handmade weaving when I think about this book in the future.
This entire review has been hidden because of spoilers.
August 10, 2018
Suprisingly, I actually liked it!!!!
I liked it more than I should. Mainly for Shin Loon's story.
The younger generation tho, cannot relate :P. It's not up to how we really live :P.
I liked it more than I should. Mainly for Shin Loon's story.
The younger generation tho, cannot relate :P. It's not up to how we really live :P.
July 26, 2018
3.5stars
I absolutely loved it while reading mother-daughter relationships in this book. It made my heart filled with warm and happy feelings. I love how all stories connect in the end but for Ma Kyay Mhone's story, I felt very much unsatisfied. (But it's okay, i guess. It'd be a thousand page long then). My favourite has to be Shin loon's story but I find other stories very much unsatisfying. Because Nay Yee's story has a lot of unnecessary plots and Loon Set's story felt like it needs more closure. I didn't get to know why Loon Myat didn't want to use the blanket, either. The story needed a lot more closures but I love learning about cultures, especially our own, so I really enjoyed reading this book.
I absolutely loved it while reading mother-daughter relationships in this book. It made my heart filled with warm and happy feelings. I love how all stories connect in the end but for Ma Kyay Mhone's story, I felt very much unsatisfied. (But it's okay, i guess. It'd be a thousand page long then). My favourite has to be Shin loon's story but I find other stories very much unsatisfying. Because Nay Yee's story has a lot of unnecessary plots and Loon Set's story felt like it needs more closure. I didn't get to know why Loon Myat didn't want to use the blanket, either. The story needed a lot more closures but I love learning about cultures, especially our own, so I really enjoyed reading this book.
August 28, 2018
As a reader who grew up reading Juu, I felt like her writing has evolved so have her ideas.
I liked the fact that she kept herself updated, with the internet, songs and social media. I’m more pleased that she’s kept her legacy of centralising a particular subject and presenting the thorough research about it, in this book, the hand-weaving.
The stories and the characters here aren’t as rich as in her previous novels. It didn’t have fairytale ending like most of her books.
What I like about this book is, it sort of portrayed the lives, the struggle and the courtship of previous generations to present days.
Many reader seemed not to like the fact that a character coming abruptly towards the end. But it wouldn’t come better in any other ways.
I must agree with most readers, I did felt empty and find no closures about the stories, like what will happen to Nay Yi’s love story. But then on rethink, her story doesn’t have to take the center stage and she will have many more stories ‘cos she’s still young. To give her a complete love story will make the book too shallow altogether.
Juu didn’t say many things explicitly, but she left it to the readers’ imagination and understanding of lives of our previous generation. Eg. why Loon Set remained single...
Overall, I like this book, and that’s the reason why I finished it in two sittings!
Learned about...
* Extricate way of Burmese hand-weaving and organic dying process
* Customs and tradition of a village
* Typical women’s struggle with love, life and marriage
* A third generation which settled in the urban city, finding it difficult to live in villages
I liked the fact that she kept herself updated, with the internet, songs and social media. I’m more pleased that she’s kept her legacy of centralising a particular subject and presenting the thorough research about it, in this book, the hand-weaving.
The stories and the characters here aren’t as rich as in her previous novels. It didn’t have fairytale ending like most of her books.
What I like about this book is, it sort of portrayed the lives, the struggle and the courtship of previous generations to present days.
Many reader seemed not to like the fact that a character coming abruptly towards the end. But it wouldn’t come better in any other ways.
I must agree with most readers, I did felt empty and find no closures about the stories, like what will happen to Nay Yi’s love story. But then on rethink, her story doesn’t have to take the center stage and she will have many more stories ‘cos she’s still young. To give her a complete love story will make the book too shallow altogether.
Juu didn’t say many things explicitly, but she left it to the readers’ imagination and understanding of lives of our previous generation. Eg. why Loon Set remained single...
Overall, I like this book, and that’s the reason why I finished it in two sittings!
Learned about...
* Extricate way of Burmese hand-weaving and organic dying process
* Customs and tradition of a village
* Typical women’s struggle with love, life and marriage
* A third generation which settled in the urban city, finding it difficult to live in villages
November 15, 2018
လက်ယက်ကန်းနဲ့ ပတ်သတ်တာတွေ သေချာလေ့လာပြီးရေးထားတယ်
ဆရာမဂျူးရဲ့ တခြားစာအုပ်တွေနဲ့ယှဉ်ရင် ဒီစာအုပ်က တခုခုလိုနေသလို ခံစားရတယ်
ဆရာမဂျူးရဲ့ တခြားစာအုပ်တွေနဲ့ယှဉ်ရင် ဒီစာအုပ်က တခုခုလိုနေသလို ခံစားရတယ်
July 24, 2018
3.5 stars
Honestly, this book didn't pull me in as much as Juu's previous books did. But still, this one is still good.
It is mainly about 3 girls, different generations each with different blankets. I love how she tells us about weaving and things, and also how she describes the beauty of the blankets. BUT I feel like the characters aren't as strong as her other characters. They didn't come inside my heart. Well, most of them....there are lots of characters in there with lots of different love stories. I was going to give this 4 or 4.5 stars BUT THE ENDING!!! OMG! 😭😭 I need more. There are still lots of gaps to fill in. I need to know more about them and their stories. But it just ends....😖 So, here I am, giving 3.5 stars to one of my favourite authors' book.
Arghhh... I need more!
But as usual, the poems and songs she use suits so perfectly with the stories.
Honestly, this book didn't pull me in as much as Juu's previous books did. But still, this one is still good.
It is mainly about 3 girls, different generations each with different blankets. I love how she tells us about weaving and things, and also how she describes the beauty of the blankets. BUT I feel like the characters aren't as strong as her other characters. They didn't come inside my heart. Well, most of them....there are lots of characters in there with lots of different love stories. I was going to give this 4 or 4.5 stars BUT THE ENDING!!! OMG! 😭😭 I need more. There are still lots of gaps to fill in. I need to know more about them and their stories. But it just ends....😖 So, here I am, giving 3.5 stars to one of my favourite authors' book.
Arghhh... I need more!
But as usual, the poems and songs she use suits so perfectly with the stories.
February 27, 2019
I just finish the book , the author’s attempt to describe the local culture is very fascinating and many details are also written in very impressive way, but I give only 2 stars coz Spoilers
there is no either real plot or main characters which carry the story to make me keep on reading. There were like 3 generations of people and at least 5 or 6 stories of romance and also their part of life over 300 pages which resembles unfinished puzzles with missing pieces. I don’t usually mind reading books which involve many characters but here some characters are kinda boring and those who assumed as main characters are also not quite interesting enough to me and some are with gaps in their stories.
Anyway overall i like the idea of the story based on an unique antique, with sentimental value and also its detail facts and plus the dialogues are smooth but I just wish the storyline has space enough for all the characters.
there is no either real plot or main characters which carry the story to make me keep on reading. There were like 3 generations of people and at least 5 or 6 stories of romance and also their part of life over 300 pages which resembles unfinished puzzles with missing pieces. I don’t usually mind reading books which involve many characters but here some characters are kinda boring and those who assumed as main characters are also not quite interesting enough to me and some are with gaps in their stories.
Anyway overall i like the idea of the story based on an unique antique, with sentimental value and also its detail facts and plus the dialogues are smooth but I just wish the storyline has space enough for all the characters.
August 17, 2018
To be frank, it was a total let down. Juu happened to be one of a very few Burmese contemporary writers I like. I still have a handful of favourites from her former books. In this recent book, she failed to weave the different stories into one impeccable shawl. (Pun intended.) It doesn’t necessarily have to feature today’s trend to make the young readers feel inclusive, I guess. Whether or not the readers can be relatable with the materials isn’t important. The much more important point is to be able to bewitched the readers emotionally.
It would have been a good book if the story was about the protagonist’s grandmother having flashbacks and the reminiscent of her two daughters (protagonist mum and the aunt). Now there is an extra chunk of sub story—the protagonist’s story—I don’t really feel like to be part of it. It’s pretty lame. Overall, I would generously give 2 stars.
It would have been a good book if the story was about the protagonist’s grandmother having flashbacks and the reminiscent of her two daughters (protagonist mum and the aunt). Now there is an extra chunk of sub story—the protagonist’s story—I don’t really feel like to be part of it. It’s pretty lame. Overall, I would generously give 2 stars.
April 21, 2020
Impressed to reveal the beauty of myanmar traditional woven culture. The evolution of culture trend is nicely described. But, the momentum of attractiveness throughout the book is weak compared to other novels.
August 5, 2018
i really enjoy reading this book except for no closures for my favorite character (loon sat) story and switching different characters in same paragraphs.
July 8, 2022
dam first love's always been unlucky..
August 22, 2025
🤍🤍🤍🤍🤍🤍🤍🤍
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