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'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.
| ISBN | 0749395923 | | Pages | 608 | | ISBN13 | 9780749395926
(What's this?) | | Part volume | "Time for a Tiger", "Enemy in the Blanket", "Beds in the East" | | Publisher | Vintage | | Weight (grammes) | 412 | | Imprint | Vintage | | Published in | London | | Format | Paperback | | Series title | Vintage classics | | Publication date | 12 Feb 1996 | | Height (mm) | 198 | | Non-book description | B | | Width (mm) | 129 | | DEWEY | 823.914 | | Spine width (mm) | 36 | | DEWEY edition | DC20 | | Academic level | General |
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"No English novelist has created Asian characters that are more convincing... the steamy, noisy, confused world they live in is conveyed with knowledge and skill." --"New Statesman" "Like all good comic writers Mr. Burgess lives his creations as much as he mocks them. First class." --"Observer"
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