{"product_id":"burma-sahib","title":"Burma Sahib","description":"\u003cp\u003e Author(s): Theroux, Paul \u003cbr\u003e Binding: Hardback, \u003cbr\u003e Date of Publication: 22\/02\/2024,\u003cbr\u003e Pagination: 400 pages,\u003cbr\u003e ISBN13\\EAN\\SKU: 9780241633342,\u003cbr\u003e Description: \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFrom renowned author Paul Theroux comes a fascinating, atmospheric novel inspired by George Orwell's years in Burma There is a short period in everyone's life when his character is fixed forever . . . ' George OrwellEric Blair stood out amongst his fellow police trainees in 1920s Burma. Nineteen years old, unusually tall, a diffident loner fresh from Eton, after five years spent in the narrow colonial world of the Raj – a decaying system steeped in overt racism and petty class-conflict – he would emerge as the George Orwell we know.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDrawing on all his powers of observation and imagination, Paul Theroux brings Orwell's Burma years to radiant life, tracing the development of the young man's consciousness as he confronts the social, racial and class politics and the reality of Burma beyond. Through one writer, we come to understand another - and see how what Orwell called 'five boring years within the sound of bugles' were in fact the years that made him.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e'Always a terrific teller of tales and conjurer of exotic locales' Sunday Times'The most gifted, most prodigal writer of his generation' Jonathan Raban\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Griffin Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43101208084524,"sku":"9780241633342","price":20.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0379\/1365\/7388\/files\/9780241633342.jpg?v=1713005406","url":"https:\/\/www.griffinbooksonline.pro\/products\/burma-sahib","provider":"Griffin Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}