The Long Day Wanes-a Malayan Trilogy: Time For a Tiger; the Enemy in the Blanket; Beds in the East

by A. Burgess (Author)

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  Used

  Paperback
  1981

  $4.97

• New

  Paperback
  1993

  $28.56

  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.