by Paul Scott · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788447302376
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«El día del escorpión» is the historical novel by Paul Scott, published by RBA in paperback (426 pages, in Spanish).
In colonial India, the British community watches the independence movement grow. The title alludes to the scorpion that, surrounded by fire, poisons itself: an image of British self-destruction before the flames of independence. Repression does not quench the Indian leaders' thirst for freedom, and the English take refuge in drink and madness.
Second instalment of the Raj Quartet series. Translated by Rosa M. Bassols. The original English edition, The Day of the Scorpion, appeared in 1968.
For readers of historical fiction and twentieth-century British literary classics, with an interest in colonial 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.
