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Set in the final decades of the British Raj, this novel encapsulates a land of pongyis and pagodas that was Burma between 1926 and 1941. Through the lives of the Camerons, headed by HILDA, matriarch and respected third generation British settler, we discover the roots of tragic dilemmas confronting the Burma's inhabitants on the outbreak of war and the invasion of Imperial Japan.
 

HILDA CAMERON is faced with a crisis when both her sons - WILLIAM, whose marriage to MARION has failed to produce any children, and FRANK, the youngest and a bachelor - break the rigorous social taboo of colonial life and father bastard half-caste children. Determined to legitimise both her grandchildren, HILDA forces MARION to divorce WILLIAM  and return to England with her parents, much against her will.

During the thirties, HILDA has ten grandchildren, with eldest granddaughter, RUBY, growing into a particularly beautiful teenager possessing exceptional insight. Her cousin, WILLIAM's eldest son, NORMAN, is an intelligent lad with a hunger for adventure. But MARION has husbanded her hate for over twelve years . When her parents die just before the outbreak of war in Europe, she returns to Burma to revenge herself on the Camerons.

On her passage back to Burma, MARION falls deeply in love with Japanese COLONEL IKO. She is easily persuaded to live in Rangoon as his English geisha, convinced that Japan will soon occupy Burma, and waits impatiently for the day when Japan and the despised Eurasion Cameron family will be at her mercy.

But RUBY poses unexpectedly difficult problems for MARION and her Japanese lover, whose plans for a "Bicycle Blitzkrieg" in the imminent invasion of Burma and Malaya are uncovered accidently by the young girl.

The story is set for the clash of race and religion, with Karen and Burmese, Christian and Buddhist, European and Asian, on opposing sides as Japan and Britain engage in a titanic struggle between empires in the cockpit of Burma's bamboo jungles and rice paddies.

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