The Old Musician/Tun/Lokta

The Old Musician is one of the main protagonists of the novel. The Old Musician is the father of Sita, the friend of Dr. Narunn, the lover of Channara, and the killer of Aung Sokhon. His nickname as a child is Tun, which means tenderhearted. At the temple they call him Lokta - and as he writes in his signature to Suteera, “Lokta Pleng at Wat Naraga - ‘the Old Musician at Nagara Temple’” (32). Ratner tells his perspective from the current day, but also in the past from Tun’s perspectives. As the novel proceeds, Ratner increasingly tells his perspective from Tun’s third person perspective for entire moments, until the end when from page 294 - 298 she tells his perspective from the first person as he relates his story to Suteera of how he killed her father.

Tun grew up the son of a...