A review by omipotent
Burmese Days by George Orwell

5.0

I feel particularly connected to this book because of my childhood. Have read very little on Englands ownership of India. I think it is a responsibility of Europeans to educate themselves on this kind of history. I found the characters complicated and wonderful to follow, since we got a detailed depiction of several whites with VERY different politics, several different Burmese, Indian, half caste and Chinese. I can feel for the main character, as a less racist time we live in the native Indians attitude towards white people seems not to have changed. I got particularly wound up by Elizabeth, but I really enjoyed the nuance the different characters allowed him to explore. It paints a good picture about what life would have been like to work out in the countries which England owned. I find it weird that I have a similar life story to George Orwell but anyway.