RaveThe Telegraph (UK)...an electrifying portrait of modern Russia ... Pomerantsev’s Moscow is a place of endless simulation and boundless cynicism; one where buildings in the \'protected\' historic centre can be bulldozed and replaced with imitations because that’s the best way to launder money. Still wondering how an opposition leader could be killed so close to the Kremlin, as Boris Nemtsov was in February? Read Pomerantsev, and you’ll wonder no more.
David Eimar
PositiveThe Telegraph[Eimar] listens to as many factions as he can in a disunited nation. These voices coalesce in a book that explains wonderfully well why Burma today is both compelling and combustible ... His book is a good primer on history, culture and modern-day politics, and on the power wielded by the Buddhist hierarchy. But it\'s the realities of daily life that really interest him ... George Orwell, who served as a police officer in Burma during the Twenties, was withering in Burmese Days (1934) about the British Empire’s role there; Eimer is equally forthright about its legacy ... If Orwell could read A Savage Dreamland, he would be impressed, surely, by this choral-voiced account of a country where so many, for so long, have been silenced.
