David Eimer is the author of the critically acclaimed The Emperor Far Away: Travels at the Edge of China. A former China correspondent for the Sunday Telegraph, Eimer was the Southeast Asia correspondent for the Daily Telegraph between 2012 and 2014. He is currently based in Bangkok.His new book is A Savage Dreamland: Journeys in Burma.
One of Eimer's ten top books on Burma, as shared at the Guardian:
Burmese Days by George OrwellRead about another entry on the list.
The sweet sibilance of the title alone makes this a compulsory choice. Orwell spent five years in Burma in the 1920s as a policeman, alternately racked with self-loathing over his role as a colonial enforcer and enraged by the locals’ increasing disdain for the British presence in their country. All that bile came out in this devastating portrait of small-minded, deeply racist Brits in a tiny up-country town. It is a damning indictment of imperial rule.
See Rory MacLean's top ten books on Burma.
--Marshal Zeringue
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