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Finding George Orwell in Burma
From: Mother Jones
Date: 20050501
Author:Herman, Marc
Finding George Orwell in Burma
By Emma Larkin. The Penguin Press. $22.95.
In 1950, George Orwell started work on a sequel to his novel Burmese Days, based on his stint as an imperial administrator in Mandalay. He got only three pages into the new story before he died of tuberculosis. In Finding George Orwell in Burma, journalist Emma Larkin takes up this unfinished task, trying to decode the country with the help of the author who is known by some Burmese simply as "the prophet."
In the pseudonymous Larkin, the secretive Burmese dictatorship has found its perfect foreign narrator. All we know ...
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