Novel
နေညိုညို
Not translated into English
P Moe Nin · 1920
Synopsis
One evening in Tabodwe, on the road from Shwedaung to Prome, a young clerk on horseback stops for a drink at a farm just as a boy is being born there, and he casts the child's horoscope. The novel then follows Nyo Nyo, a girl born in secret, whom her father could not acknowledge and who grows up in the countryside, helped by an adoptive father and brother. Her childhood friend, Maung Nay Oo, who has gone off to study in town, remains attached to her; but Nyo Nyo in turn leaves for the town, where a city man, Ko Htun Khin, deceives her.
Context
The novel appeared in 1920 from Buddhasasana Pyu Ahpwe, the year its author published several other titles. It belongs to the vein that, for the first time in Burma, places an individual at the centre of the story; its readers today see in it a break with the marvellous tale in favour of a realist form. Its author left more than eighty novels and nearly seven hundred short stories and articles, signed with numerous pseudonyms.
Who it is for
A novel in Burmese, with a prose more supple than that of its time, according to its readers; no French translation.
Prizes and reception
Cited among the main novels of an author to whom we owe the first Burmese novels centred on an individual.
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