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George Orwell: Burmese Days (Penguin Modern Classics) [2014] mass_market CLASS Sylvia Molloy's Dislocations records theBased 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