![]() ![]() The story is set in the 1920s in the fictional town of Kyauktada, a “fairly typical Upper Burma town” of four thousand people, located on the banks of the Irrawaddy River at the far end of the railway line leading north from Mandalay. See below to find out what you need to know to decide whether you should read Burmese Days, or what you should know about it even if you never do! The world depicted in the novel, Orwell’s first, is ugly and dark but occasionally reveals moments of great beauty. The novel communicates an anti-colonial message by showing the colonists to be proud, ill-mannered, idle, drunk, driven by greed and ultimately self-destructive.īurmese Days is not as well-known as the dystopian novel 1984 or the allegorical novella Animal Farm, but comes from the same sharp pen. This post is about Burmese Days, the story of an Englishman living in a remote town in Burma where the European Club’s members can almost be counted on one hand. ![]() Backlist books is a column by Lucy Day Werts that focuses on enduring, important works from or about Asia. ![]()
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