
Chosen by John Irving in the New York Times as One of the Best Books of the 21st Century "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...

Chosen by John Irving in the New York Times as One of the Best Books of the 21st Century "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...

Chosen by John Irving in the New York Times as One of the Best Books of the 21st Century "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...


Chosen by John Irving in the New York Times as One of the Best Books of the 21st Century "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...

From the acclaimed author of The Mosquito Coast and The Bad Angel Brothers comes a riveting new novel exploring one of English literature's most beloved and controversial figures--George Orwell--and the early years as an officer in colonial Burma that transformed him from...


'This novel is one of his finest in a long and redoubtable oeuvre' William Boyd, New York Times From renowned author Paul Theroux comes a fascinating, atmospheric novel inspired by George Orwell's years in Burma There is a short period in everyone's life when his character is...