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2 unusual facts about The Long Day Wanes


The Long Day Wanes

He was no doubt thinking of himself as much as of Fauconnier when he wrote: "Perhaps the best of all Malayan fiction is, strangely, by a Frenchman – Malaisie, by Henri Fauconnier, a Prix Goncourt winner of the twenties. Its strength lies in its author's knowledge of the Malays, which naturally entails a knowledge of the Malay language."

Time for a Tiger

Time for a Tiger is part one of Anthony Burgess's Malayan Trilogy The Long Day Wanes, "the first panel of a triptych" set in the twilight of British rule of the peninsula.



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