by Paul Scott · Seix Barral · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788432240072
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«Reparto de despojos» is the historical novel by Paul Scott, published by Seix Barral in paperback (516 pages, in Spanish).
The novel recreates the final years of British presence in India and follows Ronald Merrick, an ambitious and ruthless police officer whose corruption personifies the decline of the empire; through fictional characters it explores the political and social tensions of the end of colonial rule.
Fourth installment of the series «La joya de la corona» (The Raj Quartet).
Recommended 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.
