by Paul Scott · Seix Barral · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788432240058
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«El día del escorpión» is the historical novel by Paul Scott, published by Seix Barral in paperback (426 pages, in Spanish).
The novel continues the story of the last years of British rule in India. Sarah Layton questions the rigidity of the colonial circle of the memsahibs and strikes up a friendship with Ahmed Kasim, son of a member of the Indian Congress, while her family becomes involved in political arrests over Congress's attempt to expel the British.
Second instalment of the series «La joya de la corona», also known as «El cuarteto del Raj», translated by Rosa M. Bassols. The Spanish edition appeared in 1985.
For readers of historical fiction and literary fiction interested in colonial India and the end of the British Empire.
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.
