Burmese Days
by:
George Orwell (author)
Format: paperback
ASIN: 6821355
Publisher: Time Reading Program Special Edition
Pages no: 279
Category:
Classics,
Novels,
Travel,
Literature,
European Literature,
British Literature,
Cultural,
Historical Fiction,
Literary Fiction,
20th Century,
Asia,
Fiction
I was going to mark it as 3 stars because I didn't like the ending but I really enjoyed reading this book so I changed my mind. As a person who spent her teen years in a former British colony, albeit in the 90s, I could identify with a lot that the book talked about. It still shocked me how racist t...
Wry and a bit overblown with thickly-strewn symbolism. A lot of the action related to the mores and manners of British colonial culture looks silly from the current perspective, and is already faintly ridiculous to Orwell. It is interesting and useful to see that keeping and saving face matters as m...
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