Burmese days / George Orwell.

"Burmese Days is a novel by famous English novelist, essayist, journalist, and critic – George Orwell. It was Orwell’s first novel, and was first published in 1934. It is a tale from the waning days of British colonialism, when Burma was ruled from Delhi as a part of British India – "a portrait of the dark side of the British Raj." It is set in 1920s imperial Burma, in the fictional district of Kyauktada. The plot follows the story of John Flory, "the lone and lacking individual trapped within a bigger system that is undermining the better side of human nature.” Orwell's harsh portrayal of colonial society was felt by "some old Burma hands" to have "rather let the side down". In a letter from 1946, Orwell said "I dare say it's unfair in some ways and inaccurate in some details, but much of it is simply reporting what I have seen.""--