finding george orwell in burma by emma larkin

It even arrived in time to fit into my month of re-reading. So when Kaggsy from Librarything recently offered me a second hand copy she had found I was delighted. Well it proved rather harder to get a cheap copy (I balked at the some of the high prices on the internet). I loved it – but rather rashly gave away my copy thinking I could get another copy easily. | Burma - Politics and government - 20th century.I first read this book just over 5 years ago – I had to check back to be sure of when it was. Originally published under title: Secret histories : a journey through Burma today in the company of George Orwell London : John Murray, 2004. She brings to life a country and a people cut off from the rest of the world, and from one another, by the ruling military junta and its network of spies and informers.'-BOOK JACKET.

Traveling from Mandalay and Rangoon to poor delta backwaters and up to the old hill-station towns in the mountains of Burma's far north, Larkin visits the places Orwell worked and lived, and the places his books live still. 'Finding George Orwell in Burma is the story of the year Emma Larkin spent traveling across this shuttered police state using the life and work of Orwell as her guide. When Larkin quietly asked one Burmese man if he knew the work of George Orwell, he stared blankly for a moment and then said, 'Ah, you mean the prophet.''.

And then there is the place of Orwell's work in Burma today: Emma Larkin found it a commonplace observation in Burma that Orwell did not write one book about the country but three - the other two being Animal Farm and Nineteen Eighty-Four. Both his first novel, Burmese Days, and the novel he left unfinished upon his death were set in Burma. The connection between George Orwell and Burma is not simply metaphorical, of course George Orwell's mother was born in Burma, and he was shaped by his experiences there as a young man working for the British Imperial Police. 'Over the years the American writer Emma Larkin has spent traveling in Burma, she's come to know all too well the many ways this police state can be described as 'Orwellian.' The life of the mind exists in a state of siege in Burma, and it long has.

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Finding george orwell in burma by emma larkin