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Ma Ma Lay’s 1955 novel of the marriage between a rural teenager to a powerful Anglophile twenty years her senior, set in prewar Burma, is an engaging drama, finely observed work of social realism, and stirring rejection of Western cultural dominance by Burma’s foremost female author and one of its preeminent voices for change.

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“Altogether this book is much more than the mere translation of a representative work: it reveals a too well hidden culture, its refinement and its depth.” * Journal of Southeast Asian Studies *
“(Not Out of Hate) is complemented well by Robert Vore’s interesting afterword. Vore draws a number of parallels between Ma Ma Lay’s novel and George Orwell’s earlier Burmese Days, in which Orwell, stationed in lower Burma when Ma Ma Lay was growing up there, makes a number of similar observations about British colonial rule.” * Asian Studies Review *

Not Out of Hate A Novel of Burma

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    A Paperback / softback by Ma Ma Lay, William H. Frederick, Margaret Aung-Thwin

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      Publisher: Ohio University Press
      Publication Date: 19/08/2019
      ISBN13: 9780896801677, 978-0896801677
      ISBN10: 0896801675

      Description

      Book Synopsis
      Ma Ma Lay’s 1955 novel of the marriage between a rural teenager to a powerful Anglophile twenty years her senior, set in prewar Burma, is an engaging drama, finely observed work of social realism, and stirring rejection of Western cultural dominance by Burma’s foremost female author and one of its preeminent voices for change.

      Trade Review
      “Altogether this book is much more than the mere translation of a representative work: it reveals a too well hidden culture, its refinement and its depth.” * Journal of Southeast Asian Studies *
      “(Not Out of Hate) is complemented well by Robert Vore’s interesting afterword. Vore draws a number of parallels between Ma Ma Lay’s novel and George Orwell’s earlier Burmese Days, in which Orwell, stationed in lower Burma when Ma Ma Lay was growing up there, makes a number of similar observations about British colonial rule.” * Asian Studies Review *

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