There is a short period in everyone's life when his character is fixed
forever . . . ' George Orwell
Eric 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.
Drawing 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.
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