Emma Larkin is the pseudonym for an American journalist who was born and raised in Asia, studied the Burmese language at the School of Oriental and African Studies in London, and covers Asia widely in her journalism from her base in Bangkok. She has been visiting Burma for close to fifteen years. Emily Durante has been acting since the age of seven, performing in a number of stage plays professionally, in the community, and at the college level. Other performance credits include commercial and industrial voice work, educational live theater, and singing telegrams. She has been narrating audiobooks for over ten years. Her titles include the Midnight Twins trilogy by Jacqueline Mitchard, Casting Off by Nicole R. Dickson, Impossible and Locked Inside both by Nancy Werlin, and Smooth Talking Stranger by Lisa Kleypus. She has also directed audiobooks, including the Earphones Award-winning performance of Heaven's Keep narrated by Buck Schirner. Emily resides in the Philadelphia area with her husband and two children.
In one of the most intrepid travelogues in recent memory, Emma Larkin tells of the year she spent traveling through Burma, using as a compass the life and work of George Orwell, whom many of Burma's underground teahouse intellectuals call simply the Prophet.In stirring prose, she provides a powerful reckoning with one of the world's least free countries.
Finding George Orwell in Burma is a brave and revelatory reconnaissance of modern Burma, one of the world's grimmest and most shuttered police states, where the term Orwellian aptly describes the life endured by the country's people. A truer picture of authoritarianism than anyone has written since, perhaps, Orwell himself.
發表於2024-12-26
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“A hotel manager working in a government-run hotel explained to me that if she was too friendly with foreigners she was given a warning. She was transferred every two years, to prevent her from cementing friendships with returning tourists. ” “In one of ...
評分美國記者艾瑪·拉金在緬甸尋訪瞭奧威爾的生活軌跡,後者是一位英帝國時期緬甸殖民地的警察,但隨後做齣決定,離開瞭這種代錶帝國權力的殖民者工作並令人費解的選擇成為一名作傢。再之後的故事想必世人皆知。奧威爾寫齣瞭《動物農場》和《1984》兩部傑齣的反極權和烏托邦的著作...
評分本書作者艾瑪·拉金,於2011年前用瞭多年時間走遍瞭喬治·奧威爾當年在緬甸曾經駐足過的地方,她甚至尋到瞭一些帝國時代的故人,通過他們迴憶起當年這位帝國治下警察,曾在緬甸生活的吉光片羽;然而物是人非,當年緬甸還有著大英帝國的影子:英式俱樂部,網球場,能吃到西餐的...
評分多數讀者瞭解喬治·奧威爾,還是通過《一九八四》與《動物莊園》這樣兩部“反烏托邦”的作品。說來尷尬,在現下,知道“一九八四”的人,恐怕要比知道“烏托邦”的多上不少。究其原因,大概是前者更容易被對號入座,而烏托邦,則已經是過期的幻想。 《一九八四》是一次對於極權...
評分“A hotel manager working in a government-run hotel explained to me that if she was too friendly with foreigners she was given a warning. She was transferred every two years, to prevent her from cementing friendships with returning tourists. ” “In one of ...
圖書標籤: 遊記 Orwell 曆史 Burma 緬甸 GeorgeOrwell 英國文學 旅行
很好看。重走奧威爾的緬甸之路,無論是瞭解緬甸還是奧威爾都是很好的讀物。作者有很強的當地文化與語言背景,能深入到旅遊路綫之外的地方,帶著異域風情的寓言、文獻和人文風情都蠻有意思。而無論是書中的緬甸,還是文本所要錶達的觀點,都很有熟悉的感覺。緬甸與某國太像瞭,但可惜的是,不知作者看到昂山素季和今日緬甸掙紮中的民主轉型又會作何感想——書中一些判斷還是過於陳於錶麵瞭。
評分我也覺得作者立場太強 浮光掠影地去瞭幾個地方罷瞭
評分在不能說話的年代,能做的隻有不要忘記
評分假藉奧威爾之名的“政治宣傳冊”
評分Keep the faith, and do not be cynical.
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