![]() ![]() ![]() And then there is the place of Orwell's work in Burma today: Larkin found it a commonplace observation in Burma that Orwell did not write one book about the country but three-the other two being Animal Farm and Nineteen Eighty-Four. ![]() Both his first novel, Burmese Days, and the novel he left unfinished upon his death were set in Burma. The connection between George Orwell and Burma is not simply metaphorical, of course Orwell's mother was born in Burma, and he was shaped by his experiences there as a young man working for the British Imperial Police. Over the years the American writer Emma Larkin has spent traveling in Burma, she has come to know all too well the many ways this police state can be described as "Orwellian." The life of the mind exists in a state of siege in Burma, and it long has. ![]()
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