In “Burma Sahib,” the renowned novelist and travel writer Paul Theroux imagines the life of young Eric Blair (the future George Orwell) when he was a novice police officer in colonial Burma. At that point, Orwell was still Blair’s “secret self, the aspiring writer, the skeptic, the notetaker.”
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