Binding: Hardcover
Description: Chosen by John Irving in the New York Times as One of the Best Books of the 21st Century Paul Theroux has exploited this biographical lacuna with great shrewdness and gusto his fictional account of Blair's life there Burma is a valid and entirely credible attempt to add flesh to the skeletal facts we have of this time. this novel is one of his finest in a long and redoubtable oeuvre. New York Times Book Review From the acclaimed author of The Mosquito Coast and The Bad Angel Brothers comes a riveting new novel exploring one of English literature's most beloved and controversial figures George Orwell and the early years as an officer in colonial Burma that transformed him from Eric Blair the British Raj policeman into Orwell the anticolonial writer. At age nineteen young Eton graduate Eric Blair set sail for India dreading the assignment ahead. Along with several other young conscripts he would be trained for three years as a servant of the British Empire overseeing the local policemen in Burma. Navigating the social racial and class politics of his fellow British at the same time as he learned the local languages and struggled to control his men would prove difficult enough. But doing all of this while grappling with his own self - worth his sense that he was not cut out for this is soon overwhelming for the young Blair. Eventually his clashes with his superiors and the drama that unfolds in this hot beautiful land will change him forever.
Title: Burma Sahib A Novel
Author(s): Theroux Paul
Publisher: Harpercollins
Barcode: 9780063297548
Pages: 400 Pages
Language: English
Publication Date: 2/6/2024