"Paul Theroux has exploited this biographical lacuna with great shrewdness and gusto... his fictional account of Blair's life there Burma] is a valid and entirely credible attempt to add flesh to the skeletal facts we have of this time. ...]this novel is one of his finest, in a long and redoubtable oeuvre." --New York Times Book Review From the acclaimed author of The Mosquito Coast and The Bad Angel Brothers comes...