In the 1920s, George Orwell has ever lived in Burma for five years as a policeman of the British Empire. Five years later, he suddenly returned without submitting the resignation to the United Kingdom and began his writing career. Burma, in various forms, has been mentioned in his books: Burmese Days, Animal Farm, 1984, and his unfinished work The Smoking Room ......American journalist Emma Larkin revisited places where Orwell has ever worked and lived in Burma: Mandalay, Mia, Rangoon, Moulmein and Jessa......She tried to find answers to some questions: What promoted Orwell to abandon his colonial life and turn to writing? And what made this place in Burma so poor and miserable? Larkin has restored Orwell's life experience that ignored by almost all researchers and wrote the Orwell's spiritual impact on today's Burma. At the same time, she portrayed contradictions and absurd as well as the...
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