Yangon Days (Paperback)

San Lin Tun

ISBN 10: 9815204793 / ISBN 13: 9789815204797

Published by Penguin Random House SEA, 2024

About this Item

Paperback. Stories of ordinary Yangon residents who work and live in bustling Yangon city and their genuine experiences.Yangon, previously known as Rangoon, is the former capital of Myanmar (Burma) and one of the major commercial cities in Southeast Asia. Moreover, it stands out among its neighboring cities, such as Bangkok, Phnom Penh, Hanoi, Kuala Lumpur, and Singapore, and is regarded as a well-structured and booming city. The influx of people is constant, with individuals coming and going through the city. Even famous international literary luminaries, such as Rudyard Kipling, Rabindranath Tagore, George Orwell, Pablo Neruda, and Somerset Maugham, once visited, stayed, and enjoyed Rangoon's vibrant life.Yangon has become a home for many people, both locals and expats, who seek jobs, success, a new life, good food, and good housing. While most Yangon residents gain success and prosperity from what the commercial city has to offer, some encounter failures and frustrations. However, a city is a city, amiably welcoming those who seek refuge in its bountifulness.These twenty-six stories revolve around people, especially ordinary individuals, living in the city of Yangon. They depict their delight, empathy, follies, and humanness through their daily and family lives. Yangon Days is about them.The book is intended for general readers, especially teenagers and adults living in Southeast Asia and beyond. By reading these stories, they will become more familiar with Yangon and its charming people, gaining insights into how the city offers and treats its residents. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Yangon Days (Paperback)
• Publisher: Penguin Random House SEA
• Publication Date: 2024
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 9815204793
• ISBN 13: 9789815204797
• Binding: Paperback
• Condition: new

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Synopsis

Stories of ordinary residents who work and live in the bustling city of Yangon Once known as Rangoon, Yangon is the former capital of Myanmar, Burma, and one of the major commercial cities in Southeast Asia. A bustling hub with many businesses and social activities, it is a greener pasture for both locals and expats. It ushers people to come, live, and work in it. While most Yangon residents enjoy the success and prosperity that the commercial city offers, some simply meet failure and frustration. Nevertheless, a city is a city, welcoming people who want to take refuge in its bountifulness. Narrated in the original voices of Yangonites, voices that are sometimes tinged with irony and satire, the stories reveal their delight, empathy, follies, and humanness.

About the Author

San Lin Tun is a poet, writer, lyricist, literary translator, literary guide, writing coach, and editor. He was a former short story instructor and literary translator of Hidden Words/Hidden Worlds short story project and a former coordinator-translator of My Yangon My Home, Yangon Art and Heritage Festival, and a former translator of Gothe Institute Yangon web page. His writings appeared in local and international publications such as Asia Literary Review, Borderless, Countercurrent, Global Poemic, Kitaab, Litehouse, Litterateur, Mad in Asia Pacific, Mekong Review, Myanmar Times, My Yangon Magazine, Myanmore, New Asian Writing Anthology (NAW), PIX, Ponder Savant, Pure Haiku, South East of Now, Strukturriss, Trouvaille, and several others. He was an editorial member of Beyond Words, Issue 5, a guest fiction editor of Ambrosial Literary Garland online magazine, a guest editor of Open Leaf Press Review, and a reader at Prism International. His academic qualifications include a certificate in AmPox.3, a certificate in Start Writing Fiction, B.E. (Metallurgy), and M.A. (Buddha Dhamma). He is the first prize winner of Poetry of Wales National Day in 2015. His other keen interests are photography, playing guitar, and drawing cartoons.