by Paul Scott · HarperCollins Distribution Services · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780586043066
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«Division of the Spoils» is the historical novel by Paul Scott published by HarperCollins Distribution Services in paperback (608 pages, in English).
Set in India in 1947, the novel interweaves the lives of British and Indian characters as colonial rule comes to an end and the partition of the subcontinent is being prepared. Scott shows the clash between colonizers and colonized and their contradictions, and reflects on power, race, class, and the disillusionment of empire.
The work is the fourth novel in the series The Raj Quartet; it was originally published in 1975 and this edition is from 1977.
For readers of historical fiction interested in colonial India, the end of the British Empire, and extensive narrative sagas.
Paul Mark Scott was an English novelist best known for his tetralogy The Raj Quartet. In the last years of his life, his novel Staying On won the Booker Prize (1977). The series of books was dramatised by Granada Television during the 1980s and won Scott the public and critical acclaim that he had not received during his lifetime.
