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Author : Emma Larkin
Release : 2011
Genre : Burma
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 026/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Finding George Orwell in Burma by : Emma Larkin
Download or read book Finding George Orwell in Burma written by Emma Larkin. This book was released on 2011. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A brilliant political travelogue that uses Burma to explain Orwell and Orwell to explain what life is really like under the authoritarian rule of the Burmese generals.
Author : Emma Larkin
Release : 2005
Genre : Burma
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 951/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Secret Histories by : Emma Larkin
Download or read book Secret Histories written by Emma Larkin. This book was released on 2005. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Burma, where George Orwell worked as an officer in the Imperial police force, is currently ruled by one of the oldest and most brutal military dictatorships in the world. Emma Larkin presents a side to the country that the regime does not want revealed: a hidden world that can be found only in whispered conversations, covered books and the potent rumours wafting like vapours through the country's teashops. Starting in the former royal city of Mandalay, she travelled through the moody delta regions on the edge of the Bay of Bengal, to the mildewed splendour of the old port town Moulmein, and ending her journey in the mountains of the far north, in the forgotten town Orwell used as the setting for Burmese Days. Visiting the places where Orwell lived and meeting the people who live there today, Emma Larkin gives a vivid and moving portrait of a people for whom reading is resistance.
Author : Maurice Collis
Release : 2015-05-21
Genre : Biography & Autobiography
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 117/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Trials in Burma by : Maurice Collis
Download or read book Trials in Burma written by Maurice Collis. This book was released on 2015-05-21. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This is an unpretentious book, but it brings out with unusual clearness the dilemma that faces every official in an empire like our own." George Orwell Trials in Burma recounts Maurice Collis' experiences as a district magistrate in Rangoon in the late 1920s. The book recounts his gradual realisation that far from administering an impartial system of justice, he is expected to protect British interests. In a cool dispassionate style, Collis describes how, by choosing integrity over career, he eventually loses his job. "A brilliant, direct and extraordinarily vivid account of this troubled period...a masterly survey of the Burmese scene." Daily Mail
Author : Emma Larkin
Release : 2011-06-28
Genre : History
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 613/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis No Bad News for the King by : Emma Larkin
Download or read book No Bad News for the King written by Emma Larkin. This book was released on 2011-06-28. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An incisive, unprecedented report on life inside Burma from the author of Finding George Orwell in Burma On May 2, 2008, an enormous tropical cyclone made landfall in Burma, wreaking untold havoc and killing more than 138,000 people. In No Bad News for the King, Emma Larkin, a Westerner who has been traveling to and secretly reporting on Burma for years, uses her extraordinary access and intimate understanding of the Burmese people to deliver a beautifully written and stunningly reported story that has never been told before. Chronicling the tragedy that unfolded in the chaotic days and months that followed the storm, she also examines the secretive politics of Burma's military dictatorship, a regime that relies on vicious military force and a bizarre combination of religion and mysticism to rule the country.
Author : George Orwell
Release : 2022-09-28
Genre : Fiction
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 550/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Burmese Days by : George Orwell
Download or read book Burmese Days written by George Orwell. This book was released on 2022-09-28. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Burmese Days is George Orwell's first novel, originally published in 1934. Set in British Burma during the waning days of the British empire, when Burma was ruled from Delhi as part of British India, the novel serves as a portrait of the dark side of the British Raj. At the center of the novel is John Flory, trapped within a bigger system that is undermining the better side of human nature. The novel deals with indigenous corruption and imperial bigotry in a society where natives peoples were viewed as interesting, but ultimately inferior. Includes a bibliography and brief bio of the author.
