Dimensions
151 x 234 x 19mm
'Secret Histories' is a first-hand journey through Burma in which George Orwell's vision of Nineteen Eighty-four is an eerie reality. Burma, where George Orwell worked as an officer in the Imperial police force, is currently ruled by a brutal military dictatorship.
Emma Larkin presents a side to the country that the regime does not want revealed: a hidden world that can be found only in covered books and the potent rumours wafting like vapours through the country's teashops. Visiting the places where Orwell lived and meeting the people who live there today, Emma Larkin gives a vivid and moving portrait of a people for whom the very act of reading is resistance.
