Secret Histories: Finding George Orwell in a Burmese Teashop - Couverture souple

Larkin, Emma

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0719556953 ISBN 13 : 9780719556951

Editeur : John Murray Publishers Ltd, 2005

Synopsis

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.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Emma Larkin was born and brought up in Asia. She studied the Burmese language at the School of Oriental and African Studies in London while taking her masters in Asian History. She has been visiting Burma for almost ten years.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: John Murray Publishers Ltd
• Date d'édition: 2005
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0719556953
• ISBN 13: 9780719556951
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 240
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible