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.
两个月前中国新年,在去曼德勒和眉谬旅行前,向学生借了这本台版书,学生笑说,里面的汉语太难,她一直没能读完,不过这本书正好可以成为我的旅行读物。我怕弄脏学生的书,也没带着上路,终于在来缅甸的第十一个月,花了两三天得闲读完。 这本书的前半部分,读来不适。总觉得...
評分 評分“多一个人看奥威尔,就多了一分自由的保障。”这句印在中文版《一九八四》封面上的话,很好地说明了奥威尔的力量所在。读过《一九八四》的人们,都会惊叹于其中精确的预言,也会产生好奇:奥威尔为什么具有预言能力? 这个问题可能不止一个答案。虽然很多知识分子在 1956 年赫...
評分2015年9-10月我在缅甸旅行。时间距离这本书中作者在缅甸已经有10多年了。毫无疑问缅甸发生了翻天覆地的变化,但也有一些东西从未改变。 我在仰光的住处是印度人聚居区。这里离苏雷塔很近,离中国城也不远。这里年代久远,在我住的B&B傍边的小街道上都是殖民时期的旧式房屋,泛...
評分本书作者艾玛·拉金,于2011年前用了多年时间走遍了乔治·奥威尔当年在缅甸曾经驻足过的地方,她甚至寻到了一些帝国时代的故人,通过他们回忆起当年这位帝国治下警察,曾在缅甸生活的吉光片羽;然而物是人非,当年缅甸还有着大英帝国的影子:英式俱乐部,网球场,能吃到西餐的...
一直想去看的國傢,書中的人物感覺還是浮光掠影,並沒有去深入瞭解和剖析,就是路過聊天而已,作者對於人物的預設立場也很強。但還是提高瞭大量關於這個國傢的信息,特彆是老百姓的日常,讓人從一個方麵看到瞭現代緬甸人的生活。
评分一直想去看的國傢,書中的人物感覺還是浮光掠影,並沒有去深入瞭解和剖析,就是路過聊天而已,作者對於人物的預設立場也很強。但還是提高瞭大量關於這個國傢的信息,特彆是老百姓的日常,讓人從一個方麵看到瞭現代緬甸人的生活。
评分George Orwll和Burma是賣點,吸引瞭我的眼球,結果Emma Larkin絮絮叨叨到最後幾乎讀不下去。不過前兩章還是有幾節亮點。
评分看瞭很久很久,一直聽著rice叔的unplayed piano。對比現在的緬甸,不知作者會有什麼新的想法。
评分終於看完瞭!如詩如畫。
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