Finding George Orwell in Burma

Explore the life and work of George Orwell in a fascinating political travelogue set in Southeast Asia. Author Emma Larkin, who spent years traveling in the brutal police state of Burma, uses Orwell's experiences in the country as her compass. Following in his footsteps, Larkin visits the places he lived and worked, and the places that inspired his novels, including Burmese Days, Animal Farm, and Nineteen Eighty-Four. Through Larkin's eyes, readers discover a country and its people cut off from the rest of the world and living under a ruling military junta. Yet, Larkin finds that the path she charts leads her to people who have found ways to resist the soul-crushing effects of life in this cruel police state. Larkin's book is the keenest and finest reckoning with life in this police state that has yet been written.