num_pages: 514
description: A sweetly satiric look at the twilight days of colonialism. Set in postwar Malaya at the time when people and governments alike are bemused and dazzled by the turmoil of independence, this three-part novel is rich in hilarious comedy and razor-sharp in observation. The protagonist of the work is Victor Crabbe, a teacher in a multiracial school in a squalid village, who moves upward in position as he and his wife maintain a steady decadent progress backward.
language: English
title: The Long Day Wanes: A Malayan Trilogy
titlecomplete: The Long Day Wanes: A Malayan Trilogy (The Norton Library)
genres: Asia, 20th Century, Historical, Historical Fiction, Novels, Literature, Classics, British Literature, Fiction, Modern Classics
ratings_count: 836
series: The Long Day Wanes: A Malayan Trilogy
publisher: W. W. Norton & Company