Yangon Days - by San Lin Tun (Paperback)

Book 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.