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ဂွတ်ဘိုင် ဘလတ်ဒီးမေရီ

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182 pages, Paperback

Published October 1, 2020

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Profile Image for Sébastien.
172 reviews34 followers
December 4, 2020
Goodbye Bloody Mary by Papillon* is a story about a Burmese migrant worker in Singapore and his encounter with a Singaporean girl named Mary. The brief version of this story had been featured in his previous book. This newly expanded book talks about the lives some of us have never encountered before. Intertwined in the various episodes of his attempts to survive in a foreign land, his love story with Mary is told affectingly.

Set in the mid 90’s (or late 90’s?), the narrator recounts his arrival as a legal worker to work in a shipyard. Soon after the arrival, his employers are irritated with him as he is pretty intellectual amongst other workers and his righteous attitude. After a few conflicts with the employers, he has to make a run as his safety is getting threaten. From that, his escapades as an illegal foreign worker are unfolded. He tried random jobs and through his work, he met Mary and they fall in love after some time. At first, he dares not to believe as they are from different social circle.

For being venturous and capable at various tasks, he thrives at work and life seems to give him better turn of events, too. However, the dark shadow of his life as an illegal worker haunts him. So he plans to go back to his country and then re-enter into Singapore legally. Whilst he’s trying to make amends, he gets arrested. He manages to make a brief phone call to Mary before he goes to prison but only to utter a wail of goodbye.

Although Mary is the titled character of the story, what impacts me the most is the lives foreign workers. The author takes me to the inner circles of these people and highlights their cries and laughters, fears and hopes, infringement at workplace and disappearance of fellow workers, help and support given to each other regardless of race, religion and nationality. A glimpse of prison life is shared, too. From the beginning to the end, what I truly enjoyed reading is the maturation of the narrator and how he is dedicated towards his pursuit of a better life while facing the obstacles.

That doesn’t necessarily mean their love story isn’t harrowing to read. The constant uneasiness towards feeling inferior in the relationship and the uncertainty of their future together are told in evocative tone. Similar to his previous books the author seems to know how to tug at readers' heartstrings with his simple yet compelling narrative. The storytelling is conversational and punchy but I find it a tad verbose in some parts. Overall, it’s an absorbing read. 3.7 of 5.

I received this book as a gift from the author and this is my honest review. After reading a few of his books, I guess they can be put under autoficiton genre? They might not be the absolute truth, but they could be his truth as he lived and experienced them.

*The writer’s pseudonym is the reverse-romanization of Henri Charrière’s nickname 'Papillon' in Burmese.
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7 reviews
June 10, 2021
Gives me a melancholic feeling after reading. Such beautifully written! မိုက်မဲတဲ့ဆုံးဖြတ်ချက်တွေဟာ ဘဝရဲ့ အမှတ်ရဆုံး အပိုင်းစလေးတစ်ခု အဖြစ် ကျန်နေခဲ့ရော...
နောစတဲဂျား(nostalgia) ပေါ့။
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7 reviews2 followers
August 20, 2022
A short story in Papillon’s “Peri Peri Chicken” triggered me to read this book as I wanted to know more about his relationship with “Bloody Mary”. At first, I thought it is just an ordinary romantic story. But it is a lot more than that. You’ll vividly see the life of Myanmar workers in Singapore. Although they went there, holding big dreams, to get a better life and support their family, they were terrified by a lot of hardships, criticism, racism, and labor abuse in reality. You can also reflect the conditions of Myanmar during that time and how people were trying hard to survive under the regime of the military government. While it is sad to read about that hardships, you will find yourself smiling when he is together with Mary. The love between a 21-year-old boy and a 23-year-old girl will make you heartfelt. These scenes of high and low, happy and sad carried me to read till the end in one sitting. I hope you’ll enjoy it too.
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6 reviews
September 27, 2025
ဂွတ်ဘိုင်ဘလက်ဒီမေရီ

ပုံပြင်လေးကတော့ ခပ်ရှင်းရှင်းပါပဲ။
မြန်မာပြည်ကတရားမဝင်ရွေ့ပြောင်းလုပ်သားလေးနဲ့ စလုံးသူအိမ်ရှင်ကောင်မလေးတို့ရဲ့ မပေါင်းလိုက်ရတဲ့ဇာတ်လမ်းလေးပေါ့။
(ရိုးနေပြီ၊ ဇာတ်လမ်းဟောင်းကြီးလို့တော့မထင်လိုက်နဲ့နော်)

စာအုပ်ထဲမှာကတော့ ဇာတ်ကောင် ကောင်လေးရဲ့ဘဝက စုံလို့ပါပဲ။ တက်လိုက်ကျလိုက်၊ ရေစီးတစ်ခါ ရေသာတစ်လှည့်ပေါ့။ ဒီထဲမှာမှ အချစ်ကိုရှာတွေ့ခဲ့ပြီး လူဖြစ်ရကျိုးနပ်ခဲ့ရတဲ့သူ့အကြောင်းလေး(မပေါင်းခဲ့ရပေမဲ့ပေါ့)

တစ်အုပ်လုံးဖတ်ပြီး စွဲသွားတဲ့စာကြောင်းလေးကတော့ "ဆင်းရဲမွဲတေမှုဟာ ကင်ဆာလိုပဲ"ဆိုတာပါပဲ။

ဟုတ်ပါရဲ့၊ ဆင်းရဲမွဲတေလွန်းလို့ အိမ်အပြင်အလုပ်ထွက်လုပ်နေရတဲ့ကျွန်မတို့အိမ်သားတွေ၊ ရေခြားမြေခြားက ညီအကိုတွေ၊ ပင်လယ်နဲ့ နယ်စပ်စည်းအပြင်ကမောင်နှမတွေ သူတို့တွေရဲ့ဒုက္ခတွေ ဘယ်လောက်တောင်ဆင်းရဲနေလိုက်မလဲ။

စလုံးမှာအိမ်အကူလုပ်ရင် တစ်လကိုဒေါ်လာ၅၂၀လောက်ပဲရသတဲ့။(မြန်မာငွေနဲ့တွက်ပြီး အရမ်းများတယ်မထင်နဲ့နော်၊ ဟို ဘက်နိုင်ငံကအခွန်ခတွေ ဈေးနှုန်းတွေရဲ့ဒဏ်ကို အလူးအလဲခံပြီးမှဒီကိုပို့ရတာ)

ဒီထဲမှာကတော့ ကြုံရာကျပန်းလုပ်ရတဲ့လူငယ်လေးပေါ့။ ကြုံရာလုပ်ရင်း မိတ်ဆွေကောင်းတွေရခဲ့၊ မိတ်ဆွေကောင်းတွေဆုံးရှုံးခဲ့၊ လောကဓံရဲ့အထိုးအနှက်ကြောင့် ထောင်ထဲပါရောက်ခဲ့၊ တိုက်ပိတ်ခံခဲ့ရပြီးမှမြန်မာပြည်ကိုပြန်ရောက်ခဲ့တယ်။
ဒီကိုပြန်ရောက်တော့ကော သူ့ချစ်သူလေးနဲ့ပြန်တွေ့ခွင့်ရမလား၊ ဝေးသွားတာကရော ဘာ့ကြောင့်ဖြစ်မလဲ၊ ဆရာအောင်ချိမ့်ပြောသလို ဘယ်ရထားမှာလွဲခဲ့သလဲ။ ပါပီယွန်ဆိုတာကကော ဘာကြောင့်နာမည်ကြီးနေရသလဲဆိုတာကိုတော့ စာအုပ်ထဲမှာသာဖတ်ကြည့်ကြတော့ဗျာ။

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3 reviews
July 21, 2023
this gotta be my fav i dont like the story i dont like the writing i dont like the characters but i really love the closing chapters and the inspirations. I read papillon a lot as a kid and really love the whole prison breaking, adventure, coming of age story. It's all i gotta say about this book. I did enjoy character study tho( mostly side characters who just in for one chapter and just gone).
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6 reviews
January 9, 2021
အရင်ကျနော်ဖတ်ခဲ့တဲ့ စာအုပ်တွေထက်စာရင်တော့ ဇာတ်လမ်းနည်းနည်း ရှည်တယ်မြင်တယ် ဒါပေမယ့် ပိုလဲ ဖတ်လို့ကောင်းလာတယ်။
အချစ်ဇာတ်လမ်းတခုထက်ပိုသွားတယ် စလုံးမှာ လုပ်ရကြုံရတွေပါပါတော့ ရသပိုစုံသွားတယ်။
စာအုပ်ဖတ်ပီး ဆက်လုပ်ဖြစ်ဖို့ကတော့ Baran နဲ့ Papillon ဆိုတဲ့ ဇာတ်ကားကြည့်ဖို့ပါပဲ...
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37 reviews2 followers
January 29, 2021
I lost my words after reading this. What-a-book for me.
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3 reviews
September 10, 2021
ရသ အပြည့်ခံစားရတယ် အရယ် အပြုံး အငိုရော
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December 7, 2022
lovely
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July 4, 2024
အရမ်းသဘောကြရတဲ့စာအုပ်လေး
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May 13, 2023
ဖ��်ကြည့်ကြပါ။ ကောင်းပါတယ်
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