Burmese Days YAF047030 or his new wife

or his new wife

Mari has spent a lifetime training to become empress

But in an all-white town

it is his magnanimity which raises him to the first rank of world authors

comes a dark

Burmese Days YAF047030 or his new wifeFrom one of the worlds most influential writers, an evocative, morally sharp first novel that is a powerful work of political fiction and an examination of the debasing effect of empire on occupied and occupier. Burmese Days focuses on a handful of Englishmen who meet at the European Club to drink whisky and to alleviate the acute and unspoken loneliness of life in 1920s colonial Burmawhere Orwell himself served as a policemanduring the waning days of