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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