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    "title": "The Malayan Trilogy",
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    "annotation": "<p><span>Anthony Burgess was an officer in the Colonial Service. In<span>&nbsp;</span><em>The Malayan Trilogy</em><span>&nbsp;</span>-<span>&nbsp;</span><em>Time for a Tiger, The Enemy in the Blanket</em><span>&nbsp;</span>and<span>&nbsp;</span><em>Beds in the East<span>&nbsp;</span></em>- he satirises the dog days of colonialism. Victor Crabbe is a well meaning, ineffectual English man in the tropics, keen to teach the Malays what the West can do for them. Through Crabbe's rise and fall and a series of wonderfully colourful characters, Burgess lays bare racial and social prejudices of post-war Malaya during the upheaval of Independence.</span><span><span>&nbsp;</span></span></p>",
    "description": "<p><span>Anthony Burgess was an officer in the Colonial Service. In<span>&nbsp;</span><em>The Malayan Trilogy</em><span>&nbsp;</span>-<span>&nbsp;</span><em>Time for a Tiger, The Enemy in the Blanket</em><span>&nbsp;</span>and<span>&nbsp;</span><em>Beds in the East<span>&nbsp;</span></em>- he satirises the dog days of colonialism. Victor Crabbe is a well meaning, ineffectual English man in the tropics, keen to teach the Malays what the West can do for them. Through Crabbe's rise and fall and a series of wonderfully colourful characters, Burgess lays bare racial and social prejudices of post-war Malaya during the upheaval of Independence.</span><span><span>&nbsp;</span></span></p>",
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