K.M.
Kaung's novella Black Rice is about an extremely dark-skinned man who
is adopted by a pale family in Burma. His tormented coming of age
coincides with the outbreak of multicolored insurgencies in Burma a year
before independence from the British in 1948.
Follow
him from the jungle where he goes to escape an unhappy family situation
to a surprise event and ending in the gorgeous, lyrical, visual prose
of poet and political scientist K.M.Kaung --
http://www.amazon.com/Black-Rice-Novella-K-Kaung/dp/0615797520
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