Reviews of The Long Day Wanes: A Malayan Trilogy (The Norton Library) by Anthony Burgess (ISBN:0393309436) | weRead
 
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Christopher posted a review at . (Language: English)
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 For colonial life in Malaysia, this trilogy is the best insight into the daily life.
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 Top-drawer Burgess, putting his characters through mostly comic paces from a mostly chilly authorial distance through three linked novels. But since he wrote from his personal experience of 1950s almost-post-British Malaya and does little to explain the social background, a reader unfamiliar with the peculiar colonial history and resulting ethnic mixture of the Malay Peninsula may have to work harder to enjoy the books.
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A reader posted a review at . (Language: English)
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 Marvelously evocative of Malaya. Burgess is a master of language.
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