by Anthony Burgess
The second part of the Malaya Trilogy continues the saga of Victor Crabbe, now headmaster of a provincial school, in the period immediately before independence. This novel concentrates on Crabbe’s marital problems.
3 books in the main sequence
Anthony Burgess
The second part of the Malaya Trilogy continues the saga of Victor Crabbe, now headmaster of a provincial school, in the period immediately before independence. This novel concentrates on Crabbe’s marital problems.
Anthony Burgess
Burgess’s debut novel, this is also the first book in his acclaimed Malayan Trilogy. Drawing on his experiences in Malaya as a teacher in the British Colonial Service the author gives a sense of real authenticity to his comic story of British ex-pats in pre-independence Malaya. The tiger of the title refers to a popular brand of beer.
Anthony Burgess
The final part of the Malayan Trilogy ‘The Long Day Wanes’ or the further amorous adventures of expatriate headmaster Victor Crabbe.