![]() ![]() This is really quite extraordinary-especially when one considers the monstrous social upheaval of Cambodia in the last decades of the twentieth century-thanks to the fallout of the Vietnam War and the subsequent rise of one of the world’s most notorious despots, Pol Pot. ![]() Today, Burma-now renamed Myanmar-is the second largest heroin producer in the world (second only to Afghanistan), and its inhabitants have the lowest income of any country in South-East Asia-even Cambodia. Fascinated by the idea that Orwell was irreversibly shaped by his youthful experiences as a policeman in the far-flung reaches of the British Empire, Larkin traces George Orwell’s steps in Burma-a beautiful-yet troubled country. The fringed silhouettes of flame trees appeared along the waterfront."Įmma Larkin-a pseudonym for an American journalist-makes an extraordinary journey in the book Finding George Orwell in Burma. Dark box-like shapes gradually turned into closed-up shop-houses with barred windows and padlocked doors. Beatrice and I huddled beneath her umbrella and watched as the town came into focus. Above them, I could just make out the outline of a high ridge on which a number of pagodas stood decked in sparkling fairy lights. "Moulmein loomed ahead of us, a dark mass of low buildings, lit here and there by the occasional lamp. ![]()
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