by Paul Scott · Editorial Diagonal (Grup 62) · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788487254871
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«La joya de la corona» is the historical novel by Paul Scott, published by Editorial Diagonal in paperback (576 pages, in Spanish).
India, 1942. In the midst of the Second World War, tension between the British administration and the Indian population erupts into riots. Following an assault on a young Englishwoman in Mayapore, the novel traces British and Indian characters trapped by divisions of race, identity and power.
First instalment of the «El cuarteto del Raj» saga; original title: The Jewel in the Crown. Translated by Jaime Zulaika.
For readers of historical fiction and classic fiction, with an interest in colonial India and the decline 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.
