Saturday 21 September 2019

Review of my novel Wolf, by Burma Expert Dr. Sean Turnell--





Kyi May Kaung's Wolf is a novel of astonishing depth.  Following the life of a student leader of Burma's 1988 pro-democracy uprisings, it touches the most profound questions of the quest for freedom, amidst the alternative demands of love and loyalty in a life lived in extremis. Wolf is simultaneously exciting, suspenseful, poignant and deeply moving. Long after you finish reading, the characters will stay with you, as will the insights it imparts.
Wolf works firstly because K. M. Kaung is a great writer.  It also works because Kaung herself lived through many of the events described. That the novel is a work of such integrity and wisdom is no little due to the fact that, in so many ways, it shines a mirror on its author and her times.
Sean Turnell, Burma Expert, author Fiery Dragons: Banks, Moneylenders and Microfinance in Burma (Nordic Institute of Asian Studies Press), 2009, available on Amazon.


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