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The
Golden Rock of Kyaik-tiyo (ISBN 1852000740) £16.95
or US$26.99
Synopsis No
sooner had HILDA CAMERON, 58 year old widow and matriarch, discovered for
certain that her father was not a Scot but an Indian, and accepted all
that followed in caste-conscious British Burma, than her cozy colonial
life was shattered by the first Japanese air-raid on the capital, Rangoon,
on Christmas Eve, 1941. Five of her ten grandchildren die in the
attack, while her bitter enemy, her elder son, WILLIAM's ex- wife, MARION,
who had recently returned from England as the geisha of Japanese COLONEL
IKO, gloated at evidence of her newly adopted country's supremacy.
By the end
of February 1942, Singapore had surrendered and Rangoon was about to
be abandoned by the British. The scene was now set for MARION to exact
her long-awaited revenge on the hated Eurasian Cameron family. But she
did not anticipate the effect of RUBY, the eldest daughter of HILDA's
younger son, FRANK.
With
a maturity beyond her sixteen years, RUBY possessed extraordinary insight
into people and events. Although she experienced a world full of hate and
tribal vendetta, which left her father brutally slain, she fought fear
with forbearance, cruelty with compassion, while her love for American,
CHUCK TODD, leader of the 'Flying Tigers' Fighter squadron in Rangoon,
remained steadfast.
The death of her father, FRANK, in tribal vendetta between Burmese allies of Japan and Karen loyal to the Britain, prompted RUBY to accompany her Burmese grandmother in a search behind Japanese lines for the only man who could put a stop to rampant ethnic genocide between Burma's native peoples - patriot leader, BO AUNG SAN. After a series of extraordinary adventures, RUBY visited the GOLDEN ROCK OF KYAIK-TIYO and had a mystical experience. Many thousands of years ago, she was told by the Karen Christian man sheltering her from the Japanese, an old monk told the King he was given a strand of hair by the Lord Buddha. Gautama had visited him in his cave and said he could keep it if he found a large boulder shaped like a head to put on the edge of a cliff and build a pagoda on top as a shrine for his hair. The old monk did so, helped by Thagmayin, Lord of the Nats (Buddhist spirits). Climbing the steep tortuous track to the rock days later, Ruby met an old man who told her tales of the power of Golden Rock to destroy evil if she pictured it in her mind's eye whenever she, or anybody she knew and loved, was in danger. Shortly after this, following a brush with death that killed her companion, the teenager is back with her family in war-ravaged Rangoon.
She unleashed the psychic powers of the "Rock" in the Burmese capital's final hours before Japanese occupation, when Rangoon zoo was bomb-damaged, and a crazed tiger stalked its streets at night.
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