by Paul Scott · FisicalBook · tapa dura · ISBN 9788447301935
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«La joya de la corona» is a historical novel by Paul Scott, in hardback, with 445 pages and text in Spanish.
Set in British India during the Second World War, the novel focuses on Daphne Manners, a young Englishwoman, and an incident that shakes the colonial community. Paul Scott thus paints a portrait of the racial and political tensions of a country on the brink of independence.
First volume of the Raj Quartet tetralogy. Translated by Jaime Zulaika; the English original, The Jewel in the Crown, was published in 1966.
For readers of historical fiction and British literature interested in colonial India and the legacy 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.
