![]() ![]() Larkin's pursuit of this sad jest at the expense of the Burmese people takes her to the places Orwell was stationed during his five years as an officer in the Imperial Police Force, the cities of Rangoon and Mandalay Moulmein, where there is still a street named after his grandfather, a prominent merchant Myaungmya and Twante in the soggy delta of the Irrawaddy and the hill town of Katha, the setting for Burmese Days. And third, his masterpiece, Nineteen Eighty-four, the classic tale of of a soulless, reality-distorting dictatorship. Second, his satirical novel Animal Farm, in which the animals overthrow the humans and take control of the farm, only to find themselves under the far worse tyranny of the pigs. First, his debut novel, Burmese Days, which essentially reflects his disenchantment with his role as an instrument of colonial oppression. Reviewed by JIM EAGLES There is a Burmese joke - which Emma Larkin has come to see as a truth - that George Orwell wrote three books about Burma. ![]()
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