EAN: 9780141185378

PENGUIN MODERN CLASSICS BURMESE DAYS - GEORGE...

Set in the days of the Empire  with the British ruling in Burma  Burmese Days describes both
indigenous corruption and Imperial bigotry  when 'after all  natives were natives - interesting
no doubt  but finally only a "subject" people  an inferior people with black faces'.  Against
the prevailing orthodoxy  Flory  a white timber merchant  befriends Dr Veraswami  a black
enthusiast for Empire. The doctor needs help. U Po Kyin  Sub- divisional Magistrate of
Kyauktada  is plotting his downfall. The only thing that can save him is European patronage:
membership of the hitherto all-white Club.  While Flory prevaricates  beautiful Elizabeth
Lackersteen arrives in Upper Burma from Paris. At last  after years of 'solitary hell'  romance
and marriage appear to offer Flory an escape from the 'lie' of the 'pukka sahib pose'.

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