The Malayan Trilogy - Couverture souple

Burgess, Anthony

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0749395923 ISBN 13 : 9780749395926

Editeur : Vintage Classics, 1996

A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur :

'Like all good comic writers Mr Burgess lives his creations as much as he writes them. First class'

Observer

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.

Quatrième de couverture :

'Like all good comic writers Mr Burgess lives his creations as much as he writes them. First class'

Observer

Victor Crabbe is a well meaning, ineffectual English schoolteacher 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 the absurdities, conflicts and confusions of the dog days of Empire.

'Essentially and splendidly comic' Allan Massie

See also: A Dead Man in Deptford

À propos de cette édition

• Éditeur: Vintage Classics
• Date d'édition: 1996
• ISBN 10: 0749395923
• ISBN 13: 9780749395926
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 608