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Synopses & ReviewsPublisher Comments: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. Review:"A truer picture of authoritarianism than anyone has written since, perhaps, Orwell himself." Mother Jones Review:"Mournful, meditative, appealingly idiosyncratic...an exercise in literary detection but also a political travelogue." The New York Times Review:"Combining literary criticism with solid field reporting, [Larkin] captures the country at its best and, more often, its worst." San Francisco Chronicle Review:"[A] sobering, journalistic memoir....A disquieting profile of a country and its people." Newsweek Review:"[A] highly original, idiosyncratic book....Larkin paints evocative pictures of Rangoon and Mandalay and the magnificent Irrawaddy River, of nighttime markets twinkling with fairy lights, old colonial mansions...children playing in the streets, adults laughing in teahouses." Washington Post Synopsis:In one of the most intrepid travelogues in recent memory, 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."
About the AuthorEmma Larkin is the pseudonym for an American journalist who was born and raised in Asia, studied the Burmese language at the School of Oriental and African Studies in London, and covers Asia widely in her journalism from her base in Bangkok. What Our Readers Are SayingBe the first to add a comment for a chance to win!Product Details
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