{"product_id":"burmese-days-2","title":"Burmese Days","description":"\u003cp\u003eIn the   Burmese provincial town of Kyauktada, the world-weary John Flory – a   thirty-something English teak dealer – leads a life of quiet disillusionment,   hardly mixing with the natives or the expat community, and deriving some   comfort only from his conversations with an Indian friend, Doctor Veraswami,   and the attentions of his local mistress. His prospects seem to improve when   he meets the orphaned niece of a timber merchant, Elizabeth Lackersteen, who   appears to reciprocate his feelings of love – but the arrival on the scene of   another suitor, the boorish police officer Verrall, and the scheming of a   disgruntled local magistrate threaten to shatter Flory’s dreams and put him   on a path to tragedy.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e     Based on the author’s own experiences in Burma as a young officer in the   Indian Imperial Police, Burmese Days – here presented in the version   published in Britain in 1944, which follows the text of its first American   edition – is George Orwell’s debut novel, invaluable both as a faithful description   of life in Burma during the twilight of the British Raj and as an exposé of   the failings of colonial rule.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Alma Books Ltd","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":39732325318739,"sku":"9781847498809","price":13.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0278\/1295\/4195\/files\/9781847498809_06fbf83a-6115-40f9-9e4e-0af7351bcfbf.jpg?v=1764409535","url":"https:\/\/agendabookshop.com\/products\/burmese-days-2","provider":"Agenda Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}