by Paul Scott · Pan Australia · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780330302036
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«The Jewel in the Crown» is the historical novel by Paul Scott, published by Pan Australia in paperback (576 pages, in English).
India, 1942: during the Second World War, the rape of a young Englishwoman during a disturbance in Mayapore connects Daphne Manners with Hari Kumar, an Indian educated in England. Paul Scott weaves together multiple British and Indian voices to explore racism, colonialism and identity.
First instalment of the Raj Quartet, Paul Scott's narrative quartet about the end of British rule in India.
For readers of historical fiction and literary fiction interested 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.
