ขาย หนังสือภาษาอังกฤษ FINDING GEORGE ORWELL IN BURMA มือหนึ่ง ราคาที่ดีที่สุด

รายละเอียดสินค้า A fascinating political travelogue that traces the life work George Orwell, author 1984 ANIMAL FARM, in Southeast Asia Over the years the American writer Emma Larkin has spent traveling in Burma, also known as Myanmar, she's come to know too well the many ways this brutal police state can be described as "Orwellian." The life the mind exists in a state siege in Burma, it long has. But Burma's connection to George Orwell is not merely metaphorical; it is much deeper more real. Orwell's mother was born in Burma, at the height the British raj, Orwell was fundamentally shaped by his experiences in Burma as a young man working for the British Imperial Police. When Orwell died, the novel-in-progress on his desk was set in Burma. It is the place George Orwell's work holds in Burma today, however, that most struck Emma Larkin. She was frequently told by Burmese acquaintances that Orwell did not write one book about country - his first novel, Burmese Days - but in fact he wrote three, the "trilogy" that included Animal Farm Nineteen Eighty-Four. When Larkin quietly asked one Burmese intellectual if he knew the work George Orwell, he stared blankly for a moment then said, "Ah, mean the prophet!"In one the most intrepid political travelogues in recent memory, Emma Larkin tells the year she spent traveling through Burma using the life work George Orwell as her compass. Going from Mandalay and Rangoon to poor delta backwaters and up to the old hill-station towns in the mountains Burma's far north, Larkin visits the places where Orwell worked lived, the places his books live still. She brings to vivid life a country a people cut off from the rest of the world, from one another, by the ruling military junta its vast network spies informers. Using Orwell enables her to show, effortlessly, the weight the colonial experience on Burma today, the ghosts which are invisible everywhere. More important, she finds that the path she charts leads her to the people who have found ways to somehow resist the soul-crushing effects life in this most cruel police state. George Orwell's moral clarity, hatred injustice, keen powers observation serve as the author's compass in another sense too: they are qualities she shares they suffuse her book - the keenest finest reckoning with life in this police state that has yet been written.