Secret Histories: Finding George Orwell in a Burmese Teashop
Format: hardcover
ISBN:
9780719556937 (0719556937)
Publish date: August 16th 2004
Publisher: John Murray Publishers Ltd
Pages no: 240
Edition language: English
Category:
Non Fiction,
Travel,
Autobiography,
Memoir,
Biography,
Writing,
History,
Literature,
Cultural,
Journalism,
Politics,
Asian Literature,
Asia
Petra dug this and it's all kinds of interesting. I'd have to add that other book about Burma to my reading list, but so what?
Larkin describes how his time in Burma influenced Orwell and contributed to his novels, most obviously Burmese Days but also Animal Farm and 1984. However, this is not her point. Rather, she reverses the equation to use Orwell's life and writings as an organizing principle for describing Burma/Myanm...
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