Burmese Days - George Orwell

Burmese Days is Orwell's first fictional novel to be published, and is, characteristically, a work of genius. Orwell takes memories and thoughts of his time as India, as a child and later in the Indian Imperial Police Force, and turns hem into a masterpiece. Orwell's works are often hidden by the light of his more famous non-fictional works, and, of course, 1984 and Animal Farm. It is because of this that his other works would have been far more widely known had they been written by someone else, but then who could challenge Orwell's gift with a pen? Burmese Days can be read a lot like A Passage to India, another great work, even with the main Indian ...