by Paul Scott · Hachette Littérature · tapa dura · ISBN 9782738200549
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«Le joyau de la couronne» is the novel by Paul Scott, published by Hachette Littérature in hardback (449 pages, in French).
Set in India during the final years of British rule, it portrays a colonial society marked by racial, political and social tensions. Through several narrative voices, the plot begins with the rape of a young Englishwoman and the unjust detention of a young Indian man, and leads to an investigation fraught with prejudice. Scott combines personal drama and historical criticism to show the decline of the empire.
First instalment of Paul Scott's tetralogy The Raj Quartet. French edition published under the Succès du Livre imprint.
For readers of historical fiction interested in the end of the British Empire in India and in choral narratives with multiple voices.
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.
