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An omnibus containing "Time For A Tiger, The Enemy In The Blanket" and "Beds In The East".
Synopsis
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 characters, this title lays bare racial and social prejudices of post-war Malaya during the upheaval of Independence.