Paperback. Pub Date :2010-03-01 Pages: 320 Language: English Publisher: Penguin Books Set in the days of the Empire. with the British ruling in Burma. Burmese Days describes both indigenous corruption and Imperial bigotry. when after all . natives were natives - interesting. no doubt. but finally only a subject people. an inferior people with black faces. Against the prevailing orthodoxy. Flory. a white timber merchant. befriends Dr Veraswami. a black enthusiast for Empire. The doctor needs help . U Po Kyin. Sub-divisional Magistrate of Kyauktada. is plotting his downfall. The only thing that can save him is European patronage: membership of the hitherto all-white Club. While Flory prevaricates. beautiful Elizabeth Lackersteen arrives in Upper Burma from Paris . At last. after years of solitary hell. romance and marriage appear to offer Flory an escape from the lie of the pu...