Though this book records events from the twentieth century, it is also the journey of an attractive young man born in the 1980s, from a student in Myanmar to life in the wider world. He is the most ordinary of the countless people born in the 1980s. He faces life’s hardships and learns and grows through the trials of society.
As the poem in The Story of the Stone says: “A mouthful of wild words, a handful of bitter tears. They all say the author is mad, but who understands its meaning?” Behind that irreverent exterior, how many people will learn to appreciate what makes him different?
