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Bookmark or Share- BURMA SAHIB - Kirkus ReviewsFrom a distinguished literary veteran, a compelling historical novel about callow youth. George Orwell wrote that for each of us comes a brief period in which “character is fixed forever.”
- Burma Sahib by Paul Theroux - GoodreadsAt age nineteen, young Eton graduate Eric Blair set sail for India, dreading the assignment ahead. Along with several other young conscripts, he would be trained for three years as a servant of the British Empire, overseeing the local policemen in Burma.
- Book Review: ‘Burma Sahib,’ by Paul Theroux - The New York TimesPaul Theroux’s new novel, “Burma Sahib,” explores the writer’s formative experiences in colonial Myanmar. Fresh from his elite school, Eric Blair headed east to British Burma at 19. Private...
- Burma Sahib: A Gripping Historical Novel of George Orwell's ...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 Eric Blair, the British Raj policeman, into Orwell the anticolonial writer.
- Burma Sahib — Paul Theroux imagines Orwell’s empire daysReimagining Orwell in Burma Sahib may have appealed to Theroux because it’s both a form of imaginative travel writing, and tests the boundaries between fact and fiction.
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