When the timber merchant John Flory befriends the Indian doctor Veraswami, he soon finds himself alienated from his British compatriots - and even from the woman he hopes will become his wife - as they cannot countenance the idea of racial equality.
When the timber merchant John Flory befriends the Indian doctor Veraswami, he soon finds himself alienated from his British compatriots
- & even from the woman he hopes will become his wife
- as they cannot countenance the idea of racial equality.
Meanwhile, the unscrupulous official U Po Kyin does everything to advance his own station
- no matter who he may hurt in the process.
Based on Orwell's own experiences as a policeman in Burma in the 1920s, it presents a shocking & revealing portrait of British colonial society & the terrible effects of empire on both the colonisers & the colonised.
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