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Finding George Orwell in Burma
Emma Larkin
Penguin
March 2006
On Sale: March 6, 2006
304 pages ISBN: 0143037110 EAN: 9780143037118 Paperback
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Non-Fiction
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.
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