A great selection at MR Literary Club! Thanks for the info, Bookpossum!
Although I'm not a regular contributor to the club, but I couldn't resist my urge to express my opinion this time. I had read the
Burmese Day by
George Orwell few years back, immediately after reading
A Passage to India by
E. M. Forster, published in 1924. In my humble opinion, the
Burmese Days is strongly influenced by
A Passage to India. Both novels describe a Britisher's friendship with an Indian doctor, and a British girl who goes out to the English colonies, gets envolved in relations and later quits. Both novels use the similar club scenes to depict the colonial society and contemporary values of the characters and their racial attitudes.
I also find that
George Orwell was serving in Burma at the time of publication of
A Passage to India, and there are chances that he might have inspired with it's plot and somewhat similar socio-political conditions in the Burma that time, under the British Raj.
However, despite a little pessimistic tone, it's a great read. I hope the members of the MR Literary Club will find it interesting.
