Let us first share the beauty and mystery of this most delicately titled novel, \'Leik-p\'ya\', for it is here that our story begins.
Told through the experiences of a Family whose lives span multiple generations, this epic drama bridges the exoticism of Burma\'s natives with the British rulers who sought to colonize it..
Leik-p\'ya casts a rich, historic light on a nation and period long shrouded in mystery.
Spanning the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, it is set in the Southeast Asian nation of Burma (Myanmar), a country whose independence from British rule was set in 1948.
Leik-p\'ya! Immortal Butterflies is a work of biographical fiction.
And since a majority of the people of Burma believe in reincarnation, or rebirth of the soul, the delicately titled \'Leik-p\'ya\' refers to the souls of those whose stories are immortalised in this book.
The Burmese word \'Leik-p\'ya\' is a homonym; it is the word for the beautifully-winged insect; it also means the soul.
Let us first share the beauty and mystery of this most delicately titled novel, \'Leik-p\'ya\', for it is here that our story begins
