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'Like all good comic writers Mr Burgess lives his creations as much as he writes them. First class'
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Anthony Burgess was an officer in the Colonial Service. In The Malayan Trilogy - Time for a Tiger, The Enemy in the Blanket and Beds in the East - he satirises the dog days of colonialism. Victor Crabbe is a well meaning, ineffectual English man in the tropics, keen to teach the Malays what the West can do for them. Through Crabbe's rise and fall and a series of wonderfully colourful characters, Burgess lays bare racial and social prejudices of post-war Malaya during the upheaval of Independence.
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Anthony Burgess was an officer in the Colonial Service. In The Malayan Trilogy - Time for a Tiger, The Enemy in the Blanket and Beds in the East - he satirises the dog days of colonialism. Victor Crabbe is a well meaning, ineffectual English man in the tropics, keen to teach the Malays what the West can do for them. Through Crabbe's rise and fall and a series of wonderfully colourful characters, Burgess lays bare racial and social prejudices of post-war Malaya during the upheaval of Independence.
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"A sad, hilarious book about the underlife of the expatriate East" (Independent on Sunday)
"Essentially and splendidly comic" (The Scotsman)
"Magnificent black comedies about human nature: about vainglory, obliviousness, delusion, and the undertow of despair" (The Boston Globe)
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"Essentially and splendidly comic" (The Scotsman)
"Magnificent black comedies about human nature: about vainglory, obliviousness, delusion, and the undertow of despair" (The Boston Globe)
A satiric trilogy about the last days of English Colonialism in Malaya in 1950s.
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- Publication date1978
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