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Finding George Orwell in Burma

By Emma Larkin

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| Paperback | 9780143037118

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In one of the most intrepid travelogues in recent memory, Emma Larkin tells of the year she spent traveling through Burma, using as a compass the life and work of George Orwell, whom many of Burma's underground teahouse intellectuals call simply “the Prophet.” In stirring prose, she providContinue

In one of the most intrepid travelogues in recent memory, Emma Larkin tells of the year she spent traveling through Burma, using as a compass the life and work of George Orwell, whom many of Burma's underground teahouse intellectuals call simply “the Prophet.” In stirring prose, she provides a powerful reckoning with one of the world's least free countries. Finding George Orwell in Burma is a brave and revelatory reconnaissance of modern Burma, one of the world's grimmest and most shuttered police states, where the term “Orwellian” aptly describes the life endured by the country's people. BACKCOVER: “A truer picture of authoritarianism than anyone has written since, perhaps, Orwell himself.”
—Mother Jones

“Mournful, meditative, appealingly idiosyncratic . . . an exercise in literary detection but also a political travelogue.”
—The New York Times

“Combining literary criticism with solid field reporting, [Larkin] captures the country at its best and, more often, its worst.”
—San Francisco Chronicle

“[A] sobering, journalistic memoir . . . A disquieting profile of a country and its people.”
—Newsweek

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  • Finding George Orwell in Burma By Emma Larkin

    Part travelogue, part political treatise, Finding George Orwell in Burma traces Orwell's experiences in 20th-century Burma while keenly observing the realities of daily existence under the brutal dictatorship that rules the country today. Asian-born ... (read full critics)

    bookpage published on Fri, 17 Sep 2010

  • Finding George Orwell in Burma

    EMMA LARKIN is a journalist. She maintains that the unholy trinity of George Orwell's most popular and accessible books -- Burmese Days, Animal Farm and 1984 -- were uncannily prophetic about the fate of Burma as it moved from colonial rule to an une ... (read full critics)

    asianreviewofbooks published on Thu, 2 Sep 2010

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  • English Books
  • Paperback 304 Pages
  • ISBN-10: 0143037110
  • ISBN-13: 9780143037118
  • Publisher: Penguin (Non-Classics)
  • Pub date: Mar 06, 2006
  • Dimensions: 1290 mm x 839 mm x 129 mm Just how big is that?
  • Also available as: Hardcover and eBook
  • In other languages: other languages 繁體書
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