Finding George Orwell in Burma new-arrivals-190722 It was too hard

It was too hard

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Finding George Orwell in Burma new-arrivals-190722 It was too hardFrom Publishers WeeklyStarred Review. The author, an American journalist fluent in Burmese, writing under a pseudonym, notes that there's a joke in Burma (now Myanmar) that Orwell wrote not one novel about the country, but three: Burmese Days, Animal Farm and 1984. The first takes place during the British colonial days, while the latter two, Larkin argues, more closely reflect the situation there today. " 'Truth is true only within a certain period of