The Malayan Trilogy

Zusatztext

<p>'Like all good comic writers Mr Burgess lives his creations as much as he writes them. First class' <i>Observer</i></p><p>Anthony Burgess was an officer in the Colonial Service. In<i>The Malayan Trilogy</i>-<i>Time for a Tiger, The Enemy in the Blanket</i>and<i>Beds in the East</i>- 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.</p>

Autorenportrait

Anthony Burgess was born in Manchester in 1917. He served in the army from 1940 to 1954 before becoming a colonial education officer. It was while he held this post that doctors told him he would die, and he decided to try to live by writing. A prolific and respected author, Burgess died in 1993.

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