by Paul Scott · Arrow · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780749322366
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«A Division of the Spoils» is the historical novel by Paul Scott, fourth in the Raj Quartet, published by Arrow in paperback (560 pages, in English).
The novel covers the final months of British rule in India. The empire's withdrawal leaves Hindus and Muslims facing an inevitable partition, and the characters—the Layton family, the policeman Merrick, and Guy Perron—immersed in farewells and the political turmoil of the moment.
The work was originally published in 1975; this Arrow edition is from 1996.
For readers of historical fiction and sagas about British India.
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.
