Journal Kyaw Ma Ma Lay Thway is the bestselling novel by Journal Kyaw Ma Ma Lay and one of the Burmese novels which has been translated into English. It also has the film adaption known as Blood Bond directed by the Japanese director.
The touching story of two siblings, set in the later half of the 1960's, begins with the Japanese lady, Yumisan visits Burma (Myanmar) to meet her younger half-brother. Her father was a former Japanese soldier stationed in Burma and married to the Burmese woman during World War Two. When the Japanese troops withdrew from Burma, he had to leave his Burmese wife and ten-months old son. Despite the difficulties, Yumisan finally meets her brother, Maung Maung, but she learns that he is ashamed to admit his father is a Japanese and hatred for his father who abandoned his mother and him.
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