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A Malayan Trilogy: The Long Day Wanes

A Malayan Trilogy (The Norton Library)

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  • 514pagine
  • 18 ore di lettura

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A sweetly satiric look at the twilight days of colonialism. Set in postwar Malaya at the time when people and governments alike are bemused and dazzled by the turmoil of independence, this three-part novel is rich in hilarious comedy and razor-sharp in observation. The protagonist of the work is Victor Crabbe, a teacher in a multiracial school in a squalid village, who moves upward in position as he and his wife maintain a steady decadent progress backward.

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A Malayan Trilogy: The Long Day Wanes, Anthony Burgess

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Pubblicato
1992
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Titolo
A Malayan Trilogy: The Long Day Wanes
Sottotitolo
A Malayan Trilogy (The Norton Library)
Lingua
Inglese
Pubblicato
1992
Formato
In brossura
Pagine
514
ISBN10
0393309436
ISBN13
9780393309430
Serie
Descrizione
A sweetly satiric look at the twilight days of colonialism. Set in postwar Malaya at the time when people and governments alike are bemused and dazzled by the turmoil of independence, this three-part novel is rich in hilarious comedy and razor-sharp in observation. The protagonist of the work is Victor Crabbe, a teacher in a multiracial school in a squalid village, who moves upward in position as he and his wife maintain a steady decadent progress backward.