The Sixth Enemy and Other Stories By Ma Sandar

စာေရးဆရာမ မစႏၵာ၏ နာမည္ေက်ာ္ၾကားလူႀကိဳက္မ်ားခဲ့ေသာ ၀တၴဳတို၊ ၀တၴဳလတ္မ်ားမႇ ေရြးခ်ယ္ထုတ္ႏုတ္ၿပီး ဆရာမျမႏႇင္းဆီ (Mra Hninzi) က အဂၤလိပ္ဘာသာသို့ ျပန္ဆိုေရးသားထားေသာစာအုပ္ျဖစ္ပါသည္။ ရသခံစားခ်က္ကိုသာမက မႇတ္စရာသုတတစ္ခုခုက်န္ရစ္ေအာင္ ေရးဖြဲ႕တတ္ေသာ ဆရာမ မစႏၵာသည္ စာေပဆုမ်ားစြာကို ရရႇိထားဖူးသူ ျဖစ္သည္။ အေတြးရႇင္းသလို အေရးရႇင္းေသာ ဆရာမ မစႏၵာ၏လက္ရာကို မီေအာင္ ဆရာမျမႏႇင္းဆီ(Mra Hninzi) ကလည္း ဘာသာစာေပပိုင္း ဆိုင္ရာ ကြၽမ္းက်င္ပိုင္ႏိုင္စြာ ျပန္ဆိုထားပါသည္။ ျမန္မာ့လူေနမႈဘ၀တြင္ ေန့စဥ္ႀကံဳေတြ႕ရေသာဘ၀ရသ အတက္အက် အစံုကို ဖတ္႐ႈခံစား ရမည့္ အျပင္ ျမန္မာ့ယဥ္ေက်းမႈဓေလ့ထံုးစံစ႐ိုက္တခ်ဳိ႕ကိုပါ ႏိုင္ငံျခားသားဖတ္႐ႈသူမ်ား နားလည္ သိရႇိႏိုင္မည့္စာအုပ္ေကာင္းတစ္အုပ္ျဖစ္ပါသည္။

That was true. Just like his mother said, his wife respected and cherished him. And she never walked level with him. She behaved humbly and stayed four or five steps behind. As for him, he was still not appeased because she was the one his mother chose after breaking up his affair with Mamie. He didn’t want to oppose his mother so he couldn’t help being dissatisfied with his wife. It was a marriage of convenience so he was lacking in tenderness and kindness and he knew it. He had ignored those round eyes which seemed to be longing for something from him. He treated her well and he was faithful but he never once told her he loved her.