Burmese Days Raymond Chandler and read by thousands as

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The strange treatment plunges him into a hallucinatory London dreamworld populated by figures mythical and real: a severed talking head

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Throughout their lives they return to the well-worn story of what they’ve lost with humor and rage

Burmese Days Raymond Chandler and read by thousands asBased on his experiences as a policeman in Burma, George Orwell's first novel presents a devastating picture of British colonial rule. It describes corruption and imperial bigotry in a society where, 'after all, natives were natives interesting, no doubt, but finally an inferior people'. When Flory, a white timber merchant, befriends Indian Dr Veraswami, he defies this orthodoxy. The doctor is in danger: U Po Kyin, a corrupt magistrate, is plotting