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 Burmaβs underground teahouse intellectuals call simply "the Prophet." In stirring prose, she provides a powerful reckoning with one of the worldβs least free countries. Finding George Orwell in Burma is a brave and revelatory reconnaissance of modern Burma, one of the worldβs grimmest and most shuttered police states, where the term "Orwellian" aptly describes the life endured by the countryβs people.
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