![]() ![]() Her language skills, however, allow her to glean information and mingle with the country's reserved and cautious intelligentsia. " 'What was truth once may no longer be truth after many months or years.' " Indeed, providing an accurate representation of Burmese life proves daunting, as Larkin encounters a nation bristling with informants and paranoia. " 'Truth is true only within a certain period of time,' " she quotes a regime spokesman saying after a 1988 uprising. The first takes place during the British colonial days, while the latter two, Larkin argues, more closely reflect the situation there today. The author, an American journalist fluent in Burmese, writing under a pseudonym, notes that there's a joke in Burma (now Myanmar) that Orwell wrote not one novel about the country, but three: Burmese Days ![]()
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