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Burmese Days -- George Orwell, Paperback Annette O'Toole 71 on the US BillboardFrom one of the world's most influential writers, an evocative, morally sharp first novel that is an examination of the debasing effect of empire on occupied and occupier. Burmese Days focuses on a handful of Englishmen who meet at the European Club to drink whisky and to alleviate the acute and unspoken loneliness of life in 1920s Burma where Orwell himself served as a policeman during the waning days of British imperialism. One of the men, James