In 1925, U Po Kyin is a Subdivisional Magistrate of Kyauktada in Burma, at the time an English colony. He is fifty-six years old and enormously fat—so fat, in fact, that he requires assistance to stand from a seated position. U Po Kyin views his own fatness as desirable...
self literally inferior to Flory and the other English men, and finds his own race and culture second-rate to the...
the plot of Burmese day is that a