Not my usual sort of read I have to admit but I was swept along by the descriptions and the history contained within the pages. Beautifully written.

Young smuggler Thuza is trying to move the heaven and the earth to save her parents from the prison. Michael, the son of the British ambassador, is trying to help Burma people, only to realize hoe deep his innocence and ignorance is. Officer Than is going to pay the ultimate price for his (selfish) dreams.
But above all, this is the story about the country suffering in the hard times. Burma (nowaday Myanmar) has always been suffering and the hope is almost non-existent currency here. And the pain is ongoing and you should believe no one, because everybody is trying to survive.

This was a book hard to read. Not because the authoress´s writing skills - they are very good. My problem is precisely that this is the story about the country - like a long, long journalistic report about the situation there. While I have been educated, enriched and touched, I was not connected. And I read stories because I want to connect, I want to "touch" the characters, I want to relate, I want to enter their world by them, not by their country. Thuza, Michal and Than are interesting, but I feel that I am not here to care about them per se, but about their country through them - and this is not what I came here for, unfortunately. But this is my personal assessment, maybe the other readers will appreciate the set - and they very well might!