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အလွမ်းဆိုင်
နေကြာရိုင်းတွေ ထိန်ထိန်ဝါနေအောင် ပွင့်တတ်တဲ့ ရှမ်းပြည်နယ် သီပေါမြို့ နဲ့ ဘော်ကြိုမြို့တို့ကို နောက်ခံထားတဲ့ ဒီဝတ္ထုဟာ ဖတ်လိုက်တာနဲ့ လွမ်းမိစေမယ့်၊ ပျောက်ကွယ်လုနီးနီး ဖြစ်နေတဲ့ စာအုပ်အငှားဆိုင် ယဉ်ကျေးမှု၊ စာအုပ်အငှားဆိုင်မှာ အခြေတည်ထားတဲ့ လွမ်းစရာ ဇာတ်လမ်းတစ်ပုဒ်အကြောင်း၊ ဘူတာမှာ ရပ်နား၊ ထွက်ခွာသွားတဲ့ ရထားတွေနဲ့အတူ တွေ့ဆုံ ကြုံကွဲရတဲ့ လူ့ဘဝထဲက ဇာတ်လမ်းတစ်ပုဒ်ကို ဇာတ်အိမ်ခိုင်ခိုင်နဲ့ ဖွဲ့နွဲ့ထားတဲ့ စံပယ်ဖြူနုရဲ့ လက်ရာ အလွမ်းဖွဲ့ ဝတ္ထုရှည်တစ်ပုဒ် ဖြစ်ပါတယ်။
မြောက်ဖျားက အလွမ်းရာသီ ဝတ္ထုရှည်နဲ့ စတင်ခဲ့တဲ့ စာရေးသူရဲ့ လုံးချင်းဝတ္ထုခရီးရှည်မှာ ငါးခုမြောက် မှတ်တိုင်လည်း ဖြစ်ပါတယ်။
မြောက်ဖျားက အလွမ်းရာသီ ဝတ္ထုရှည်နဲ့ စတင်ခဲ့တဲ့ စာရေးသူရဲ့ လုံးချင်းဝတ္ထုခရီးရှည်မှာ ငါးခုမြောက် မှတ်တိုင်လည်း ဖြစ်ပါတယ်။
437 pages, Paperback
Published August 1, 2018
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February 26, 2021
I first came across this book last year, when peace still flourished in my home country, where me and my brother were free to wander around our neighborhood bookstores for hours on end, where despite the pandemic lording over our backgrounds, Burmese citizens were still able to enjoy the freedom and peace of democracy, in their uniquely humble way that I could never find in another country. From the moment I saw the cover, I immediately felt nostalgic for a time that never was, an era I never got to experience, an age where I have only heard bits and pieces from adults in the past. I read over the title, and managed a little smile on my face. "The Nostalgia Shop". "How fitting.," I thought then.
At the time, I was completely engrossed in the works of Haruki Murakami and Albert Camus, the two men singlehandedly most responsible in aiding in my fight against depression, existentialism. Thanks to them, especially Murakami, I was thrusted into this vast world of literature that was always there in the background, but which I was too narrow to notice. Since then I was enchanted by literature of all sorts and languages, Japanese, French and Russian domineering among them. Needless to say, this awakening seduced me to the literature of my own country, Myanmar, one that I have heard so much about from my countrymen of all generations. It would be an understatement to say that my Burmese at the time and even now isn't perfect. I received state education for the language many years back, where I was quite exceptional at it, often dominating my peers in terms of grade, receiving praise for my composition. As I’ve said before, this was before I transferred schools and lost touch with what once made a younger me fulfilling, my love of books and languages. As a young boy, I was an avid reader, devouring comic books and was even a subscriber of a weekly-issued magazine for young kids which included works from Burmese artists across the country as well as some translated works along the lines of Archie and The Peanuts. I had participated in the 2000s where book rental shops were still a thing, and I will go so far as risking being called a boomer to say that I miss those times as a young adult. However through the moving cogs of time, this habit I had gradually faded giving room to more traditional forms of media for growing young boys like me, video games, anime and American TV series. Although I have no desire to denounce these forms of media, my expertise in Burmese greatly suffered as a result. I had little to no exposure to Burmese texts, my only form of connection with the language being speech. This, I came to realize, have to be my single greatest regret as a growing teenager.
To me, reading Burmese books are more special than just absorbing texts written in the book into my brain, instead they serve as a gateway for me to rediscover myself, a lost identity dusted over from too many years of neglect. I'm sorry about rambling too much about myself, but what can I say this book has a way of evoking that feeling into people. The feeling of taking the past, wiping all the dust away and organizing it in the bookcase of memories.
The book is told from the point of view of several people, namely the calloused, experienced and passive narrator, the elegant beauty Nay Eain warped in a sense of pathos and the ever-longing, lovable Myat Maw.
Hsi Paw and Baw Kyo were so eloquently described, with a artistic, methodical prose. The Baw Kyo station, the riverbanks at Hsi Paw, the lush, wild sunflowers that the kids passes by on their bikes, the neighboring villages filled with charming cultures are painted deep into my heart. It's almost as if I've lived there for several years and the characters are people whom I've passed by on the streets yet had never crossed my mind.
I personally loved the narrator of the book. The first chapter gripped me with the intention of never letting me go. His commentary of the changing times were classical with a tinge of irony. Without blatantly giving a chapter for his backstory, his worldview itself gives us a sense that he's been hurt by the era of military rule, one of the people who had great potential as youths yet were betrayed by the political situation of the country. He is one of the victims of a bruised generation yet he takes it with strife, and stoicism. He's content to just spend the rest of his days tending to his mother's beloved book rental shop and reading on the front porch, enjoying the wind.
Nay Eain, I must say took me by surprise. I didn't expect her character to be so dense and complex as she was. The episode about her past is written in vivid detail that kept me thinking about it for days. Reading about her forced me to think about all those people who have to leave home to come work in the city mostly as house servants or maids. She was a girl showered with love yet never content of it, searching for something flickering for her and only for her that seemed to be just in front of her yet out of reach. I understand why she might be controversial to some readers though. The decisions she chose to make nearly at the end of the book might seem illogical to some but given her past and present circumstances, and all the things in life that she lost I was able to sympathize with her.
Myat Maw I must say is my least favorite of the cast. This is no fault to the writer. I just thought that compared the other characters with their subtleties and nuances, he felt a little bit in formula. However it doesn't diminish the value and quality of the story one bit. His episodes both as kid and as an adult were some of the most melodramatic yet sorrowful parts of the book. The life of a free-spirited child shackled by unrequited love is something almost anyone in the world can relate. As a reader, it was sad to see that the inhibitions that were a motif of his past was still shackling him down in the present. It's almost as if all the longings in the world were put into a cauldron well stirred and poured on him. The last chapter which consists of the letters he wrote to the narrator to keep in touch were some of the saddest yet hopeful pieces of text I've come across in literature.
All and all, it wasn't a heavy read yet containing all the nuances you would expect in classical literature.
Rating: 4/5 Stars
At the time, I was completely engrossed in the works of Haruki Murakami and Albert Camus, the two men singlehandedly most responsible in aiding in my fight against depression, existentialism. Thanks to them, especially Murakami, I was thrusted into this vast world of literature that was always there in the background, but which I was too narrow to notice. Since then I was enchanted by literature of all sorts and languages, Japanese, French and Russian domineering among them. Needless to say, this awakening seduced me to the literature of my own country, Myanmar, one that I have heard so much about from my countrymen of all generations. It would be an understatement to say that my Burmese at the time and even now isn't perfect. I received state education for the language many years back, where I was quite exceptional at it, often dominating my peers in terms of grade, receiving praise for my composition. As I’ve said before, this was before I transferred schools and lost touch with what once made a younger me fulfilling, my love of books and languages. As a young boy, I was an avid reader, devouring comic books and was even a subscriber of a weekly-issued magazine for young kids which included works from Burmese artists across the country as well as some translated works along the lines of Archie and The Peanuts. I had participated in the 2000s where book rental shops were still a thing, and I will go so far as risking being called a boomer to say that I miss those times as a young adult. However through the moving cogs of time, this habit I had gradually faded giving room to more traditional forms of media for growing young boys like me, video games, anime and American TV series. Although I have no desire to denounce these forms of media, my expertise in Burmese greatly suffered as a result. I had little to no exposure to Burmese texts, my only form of connection with the language being speech. This, I came to realize, have to be my single greatest regret as a growing teenager.
To me, reading Burmese books are more special than just absorbing texts written in the book into my brain, instead they serve as a gateway for me to rediscover myself, a lost identity dusted over from too many years of neglect. I'm sorry about rambling too much about myself, but what can I say this book has a way of evoking that feeling into people. The feeling of taking the past, wiping all the dust away and organizing it in the bookcase of memories.
The book is told from the point of view of several people, namely the calloused, experienced and passive narrator, the elegant beauty Nay Eain warped in a sense of pathos and the ever-longing, lovable Myat Maw.
Hsi Paw and Baw Kyo were so eloquently described, with a artistic, methodical prose. The Baw Kyo station, the riverbanks at Hsi Paw, the lush, wild sunflowers that the kids passes by on their bikes, the neighboring villages filled with charming cultures are painted deep into my heart. It's almost as if I've lived there for several years and the characters are people whom I've passed by on the streets yet had never crossed my mind.
I personally loved the narrator of the book. The first chapter gripped me with the intention of never letting me go. His commentary of the changing times were classical with a tinge of irony. Without blatantly giving a chapter for his backstory, his worldview itself gives us a sense that he's been hurt by the era of military rule, one of the people who had great potential as youths yet were betrayed by the political situation of the country. He is one of the victims of a bruised generation yet he takes it with strife, and stoicism. He's content to just spend the rest of his days tending to his mother's beloved book rental shop and reading on the front porch, enjoying the wind.
Nay Eain, I must say took me by surprise. I didn't expect her character to be so dense and complex as she was. The episode about her past is written in vivid detail that kept me thinking about it for days. Reading about her forced me to think about all those people who have to leave home to come work in the city mostly as house servants or maids. She was a girl showered with love yet never content of it, searching for something flickering for her and only for her that seemed to be just in front of her yet out of reach. I understand why she might be controversial to some readers though. The decisions she chose to make nearly at the end of the book might seem illogical to some but given her past and present circumstances, and all the things in life that she lost I was able to sympathize with her.
Myat Maw I must say is my least favorite of the cast. This is no fault to the writer. I just thought that compared the other characters with their subtleties and nuances, he felt a little bit in formula. However it doesn't diminish the value and quality of the story one bit. His episodes both as kid and as an adult were some of the most melodramatic yet sorrowful parts of the book. The life of a free-spirited child shackled by unrequited love is something almost anyone in the world can relate. As a reader, it was sad to see that the inhibitions that were a motif of his past was still shackling him down in the present. It's almost as if all the longings in the world were put into a cauldron well stirred and poured on him. The last chapter which consists of the letters he wrote to the narrator to keep in touch were some of the saddest yet hopeful pieces of text I've come across in literature.
All and all, it wasn't a heavy read yet containing all the nuances you would expect in classical literature.
Rating: 4/5 Stars
October 13, 2018
"အမွန္ေတာ့ တစ္စံုတစ္ေယာက္ကို လြမ္းဆြတ္ဖို႔ဆိုတာ ေဝးေနမွမဟုတ္ဘူး။ အနီးမွာ႐ွိရက္နဲ႔လည္း အလြမ္းဟာ သူ႔အလိုလို ျဖစ္တည္လာႏိုင္တာ မဟုတ္လား"
လြမ္းခ်င္ေနတဲ့အခ်ိန္မွာ လြမ္းစရာစာအုပ္ေလးဖတ္လိုက္ရတာ သိပ္အရသာ႐ွိတာပါပဲ။ နင့္မွာ ဘာလြမ္းစရာ႐ွိလို႔လဲဟယ္ဆိုတဲ့ ကိုယ့္ကိုယ္ကို ျပန္ေမးမိတတ္တဲ့ ေမးခြန္းကို အရင္ကမေျဖတတ္ေပမယ့္ ခုေတာ့ေျဖစရာ႐ွိခဲ့ၿပီ။ ေပ်ာ္စရာအေကာင္းဆံုးဆိုတဲ့အခ်ိန္ေတြက တစ္ခ်ိန္မွာ ျပန္မရႏိုင္ဘူးဆိုတဲ့အသိ၊ အခ်စ္ရဆံုးဆိုတဲ့သူေတြနဲ႔ တစ္ခ်ိန္ခ်ိန္မွာ တစ္နည္းနည္းနဲ႔ ခြဲခြာရမွာပဲဆိုတဲ့အသိက ေပ်ာ္ရႊင္ေနရင္း ခ်စ္ျခင္းေမတၱာကို လက္ခံရ႐ွိေနရင္းနဲ႔ကိုပဲ လူကို ႀကိဳတင္ၿပီးလြမ္းေနေစပါတယ္္။ လြမ္းတတ္တဲ့လူကေတာ့ အနာဂတ္ကိုႀကိဳလြမ္းလိုက္၊ အတိိတ္္ကအခ်ိန္ေတြကို ျပန္လြမ္းလိုက္၊ စာအုပ္ဖတ္ၿပီးလြမ္း၊ ေကာင္းကင္ကိုၾကည့္လည္းလြမ္း၊ ယုတ္အစြဆံုး အနံ႔တစ္ခုရရင္ေတာင္ အမွတ္တရတစ္ခုခုကို ေတြးမိၿပီး လြမ္းရတာပါပဲ။
အခုလည္း ဒီစာအုပ္ေလးဖတ္ရတာ သံုးရက္ပဲေရာက္ဖူးတဲ့ ႐ွမ္းျပည္ကို အႀကီးအက်ယ္ ျပန္သြားခ်င္တာပါပဲ။ ပတ္ပတ္လည္ျမင္ေနရတဲ့ ႐ွမ္းေတာင္တန္းႀကီးေတြ၊ စကားဝဲဝဲနဲ႔ တိုင္းရင္းသားေတြ၊ ေအးခ်မ္းတ့ဲရာသီဥတုရယ္ အဓိကကေတာ့ ႐ွမ္းစာေတြရယ္ အကုန္လြမ္းရတာပါပဲ။ စာအုပ္အငွါးဆိုင္ေလးေတြကို ေန႔တိုင္းတစ္႐ႈိက္မက္မက္ သြားခဲ႔ရတဲ႔ကာလတစ္ခု၊ တ႐ုတ္သိုင္းကားေတြကို ညကိုးနာရီမွာ ေစာင့္ၾကည့္ခဲ့ရတဲ့ကာလတစ္ခု၊ မီးေတြပ်က္ရင္ ဖေယာင္းတိုင္ထြန္းၿပီး အဘိုးအဘြားငယ္ငယ္တုန္းကအေၾကာင္းေတြ ေျပာျပတာကို နားေထာင္ခဲ့ရတဲ့ ငယ္ဘဝကိုလည္း ျပန္ေအာင့္ေမ့မိတာပါပဲ။ ကိုယ့္အသက္က ဒီစာအုပ္ထဲက ဇာတ္ေဆာင္ေတြေလာက္ မ႐ွိေသးေပမယ့္ ျဖတ္သန္းခဲ့ရတဲ့အခ်ိန္ေတြက သိပ္ကြာလွတာမဟုတ္ေတာ့ ဇာတ္လမ္းေလးေၾကာင့္ေရာ အေရးအသားေၾကာင့္ေရာအျပင္ ဇာတ္လမ္းတည္တဲ့ေခတ္ကာလကေလးကပါ ကိုယ့္အတြက္ေတာ့ လြမ္းစရာျဖစ္ေနေတာ့တာပါပဲ။ ဒီေနာက္ပိုင္း စာေရးဆရာေတြမဖတ္ျဖစ္/မႀကိဳက္ျဖစ္တာၾကာတဲ့ အခ်ိန္မွာ ဒီစာအုပ္ကေလးဖတ္လိုက္ရတာ အိုေအစစ္ကို ႐ွာေတြ႔တာပါပဲ။
လြမ္းခ်င္ေနတဲ့အခ်ိန္မွာ လြမ္းစရာစာအုပ္ေလးဖတ္လိုက္ရတာ သိပ္အရသာ႐ွိတာပါပဲ။ နင့္မွာ ဘာလြမ္းစရာ႐ွိလို႔လဲဟယ္ဆိုတဲ့ ကိုယ့္ကိုယ္ကို ျပန္ေမးမိတတ္တဲ့ ေမးခြန္းကို အရင္ကမေျဖတတ္ေပမယ့္ ခုေတာ့ေျဖစရာ႐ွိခဲ့ၿပီ။ ေပ်ာ္စရာအေကာင္းဆံုးဆိုတဲ့အခ်ိန္ေတြက တစ္ခ်ိန္မွာ ျပန္မရႏိုင္ဘူးဆိုတဲ့အသိ၊ အခ်စ္ရဆံုးဆိုတဲ့သူေတြနဲ႔ တစ္ခ်ိန္ခ်ိန္မွာ တစ္နည္းနည္းနဲ႔ ခြဲခြာရမွာပဲဆိုတဲ့အသိက ေပ်ာ္ရႊင္ေနရင္း ခ်စ္ျခင္းေမတၱာကို လက္ခံရ႐ွိေနရင္းနဲ႔ကိုပဲ လူကို ႀကိဳတင္ၿပီးလြမ္းေနေစပါတယ္္။ လြမ္းတတ္တဲ့လူကေတာ့ အနာဂတ္ကိုႀကိဳလြမ္းလိုက္၊ အတိိတ္္ကအခ်ိန္ေတြကို ျပန္လြမ္းလိုက္၊ စာအုပ္ဖတ္ၿပီးလြမ္း၊ ေကာင္းကင္ကိုၾကည့္လည္းလြမ္း၊ ယုတ္အစြဆံုး အနံ႔တစ္ခုရရင္ေတာင္ အမွတ္တရတစ္ခုခုကို ေတြးမိၿပီး လြမ္းရတာပါပဲ။
အခုလည္း ဒီစာအုပ္ေလးဖတ္ရတာ သံုးရက္ပဲေရာက္ဖူးတဲ့ ႐ွမ္းျပည္ကို အႀကီးအက်ယ္ ျပန္သြားခ်င္တာပါပဲ။ ပတ္ပတ္လည္ျမင္ေနရတဲ့ ႐ွမ္းေတာင္တန္းႀကီးေတြ၊ စကားဝဲဝဲနဲ႔ တိုင္းရင္းသားေတြ၊ ေအးခ်မ္းတ့ဲရာသီဥတုရယ္ အဓိကကေတာ့ ႐ွမ္းစာေတြရယ္ အကုန္လြမ္းရတာပါပဲ။ စာအုပ္အငွါးဆိုင္ေလးေတြကို ေန႔တိုင္းတစ္႐ႈိက္မက္မက္ သြားခဲ႔ရတဲ႔ကာလတစ္ခု၊ တ႐ုတ္သိုင္းကားေတြကို ညကိုးနာရီမွာ ေစာင့္ၾကည့္ခဲ့ရတဲ့ကာလတစ္ခု၊ မီးေတြပ်က္ရင္ ဖေယာင္းတိုင္ထြန္းၿပီး အဘိုးအဘြားငယ္ငယ္တုန္းကအေၾကာင္းေတြ ေျပာျပတာကို နားေထာင္ခဲ့ရတဲ့ ငယ္ဘဝကိုလည္း ျပန္ေအာင့္ေမ့မိတာပါပဲ။ ကိုယ့္အသက္က ဒီစာအုပ္ထဲက ဇာတ္ေဆာင္ေတြေလာက္ မ႐ွိေသးေပမယ့္ ျဖတ္သန္းခဲ့ရတဲ့အခ်ိန္ေတြက သိပ္ကြာလွတာမဟုတ္ေတာ့ ဇာတ္လမ္းေလးေၾကာင့္ေရာ အေရးအသားေၾကာင့္ေရာအျပင္ ဇာတ္လမ္းတည္တဲ့ေခတ္ကာလကေလးကပါ ကိုယ့္အတြက္ေတာ့ လြမ္းစရာျဖစ္ေနေတာ့တာပါပဲ။ ဒီေနာက္ပိုင္း စာေရးဆရာေတြမဖတ္ျဖစ္/မႀကိဳက္ျဖစ္တာၾကာတဲ့ အခ်ိန္မွာ ဒီစာအုပ္ကေလးဖတ္လိုက္ရတာ အိုေအစစ္ကို ႐ွာေတြ႔တာပါပဲ။
August 12, 2018
I started reading this book around 4 pm yesterday and I finished it at around 2 am. I haven't read a local book like this for a long time. I just love everything about this book. I've never been to Hsipaw but I want to visit both Hsipaw and Bawkyo after reading this book, especially Bawgyo Station. I want to look at the mountains and see the wild sunflowers. I want to visit the home Nway Eain lived with her grandmother and see the Dotehtawaddy River from her backyard. I haven't felt like this since I read the author's third novel.
This book costs 6,000 kyats so it's more expensive than normal books but it was totally worth it.
This book costs 6,000 kyats so it's more expensive than normal books but it was totally worth it.
October 28, 2018
"လူတစ်ယောက်ရဲ့ပျော်ရွှင်ခြင်းဟာ ကိုယ့်ရဲ့ပျော်ရွှင်ခြင်းဖြစ်သလို အဲ့ဒီလူရဲ့ ဝမ်းနည်းခြင်းဟာလည်း ကိုယ့်ရဲ့ဝမ်းနည်းခြင်းဖြစ်နေမှန်း နားလည်လိုက်ရတာအံ့သြစရာပဲ"
"တောင်တန်းကြီးရေ၊ ငါ့မမ နွေပျော်ပါစေ၊ သူပျော်မှပဲ ငါလည်းပျော်နိုင်မှာမို့ပါ။ ငါမပျော်ရဘူးဆိုရင်တောင် ရှိပါစေ၊ ငါ့ရဲ့ပျော်စရာအချိန်ရယ်၊ ကံကောင်းခြင်းမှန်သမျှရယ် ပေးမလားဆိုရင်တောင် ငါ့မမ အတွက်ဆိုနှစ်ခါပြန်မစဥ်းစားစတမ်းပေးလိုက်နိုင်ပါတယ်"
"အို...ဒုဌဝတီ
ကျွန်တော်ချစ်ရသူ၏မျက်ရည်ကို မြစ်ရေစီးသံနှင့်အတူသယ်သွားပါလေတော့၊ ငှက်ကလေးတို့၏သီချင်းသံကိုအရံအဖြစ်ကျွန်တော်ထည့်ပေးလိုက်ပါမည်။ ချစ်ရသူ၏အရယ်အပြုံးတို့ကို တစ်ဖန်ပြန်မြင်ရမည်ဆိုလျှင် ကျွန်တော့်အသက်ကိုပင် မြစ်ရေကြောမှာ ထပ်ဆောင်းမျှောပေးလိုက်ပါမည်...."
"တောင်တန်းကြီးရေ၊ ငါ့မမ နွေပျော်ပါစေ၊ သူပျော်မှပဲ ငါလည်းပျော်နိုင်မှာမို့ပါ။ ငါမပျော်ရဘူးဆိုရင်တောင် ရှိပါစေ၊ ငါ့ရဲ့ပျော်စရာအချိန်ရယ်၊ ကံကောင်းခြင်းမှန်သမျှရယ် ပေးမလားဆိုရင်တောင် ငါ့မမ အတွက်ဆိုနှစ်ခါပြန်မစဥ်းစားစတမ်းပေးလိုက်နိုင်ပါတယ်"
"အို...ဒုဌဝတီ
ကျွန်တော်ချစ်ရသူ၏မျက်ရည်ကို မြစ်ရေစီးသံနှင့်အတူသယ်သွားပါလေတော့၊ ငှက်ကလေးတို့၏သီချင်းသံကိုအရံအဖြစ်ကျွန်တော်ထည့်ပေးလိုက်ပါမည်။ ချစ်ရသူ၏အရယ်အပြုံးတို့ကို တစ်ဖန်ပြန်မြင်ရမည်ဆိုလျှင် ကျွန်တော့်အသက်ကိုပင် မြစ်ရေကြောမှာ ထပ်ဆောင်းမျှောပေးလိုက်ပါမည်...."
December 16, 2018
I heard so much about this book from my friends and read its good reviews online, too. The fact that it has becoming quickly sold out in most of the bookshops made me want to read it even more. I finally got the book on Tuesday evening and finished it on Wednesday night.
What a delightful read. A beautiful story of the protagonists reminiscing about their adolescence in a sleepy little town of Shan State, Hsipaw. The writer carefully crafted the usual things every teenagers have to go through – like the very first crush, the unrequited love, the teenage heartache etc – with such eloquence. It was not dramatic with exaggeratedly adorned words nor boring with lack of character development. It also featured the time when book rental shops were huge impact for book nerds. The era today’s 30-somethings and 40-somethings really wish they could go back cause the book rental shop culture is nearly vanished in the country.
With such poise, the ambience of Hsipaw and its vicinity were impeccably developed. The pretty little train station, the riverside house, the book rental shop and the yellow wild sunflowers were vividly printed on my mind. As the title suggests, a subtle nostalgic feeling lingered as I turned each page. A well deserved 4 stars.
What a delightful read. A beautiful story of the protagonists reminiscing about their adolescence in a sleepy little town of Shan State, Hsipaw. The writer carefully crafted the usual things every teenagers have to go through – like the very first crush, the unrequited love, the teenage heartache etc – with such eloquence. It was not dramatic with exaggeratedly adorned words nor boring with lack of character development. It also featured the time when book rental shops were huge impact for book nerds. The era today’s 30-somethings and 40-somethings really wish they could go back cause the book rental shop culture is nearly vanished in the country.
With such poise, the ambience of Hsipaw and its vicinity were impeccably developed. The pretty little train station, the riverside house, the book rental shop and the yellow wild sunflowers were vividly printed on my mind. As the title suggests, a subtle nostalgic feeling lingered as I turned each page. A well deserved 4 stars.
June 18, 2025
စာအုပ်လေးက ၁၉၉၀-၂၀၀၀ ဝန်းကျင်ကာလ လေးကို နောက်ခံထားတာ...လွမ်းတယ် တအားလွမ်းတယ်...ဖတ်ရင်းနဲ့ ကို အရာအားလုံးကို လွမ်းတာပါ 🥺
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တော်သေးတယ် မမနွေ အရိပ် လေး ပြန်ပေါ်လာ လို့ နောက်ဆုံး မှာ။
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December 7, 2022
Beautifully wriiten and. give nostalgia feeling.
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