by Paul Scott · Arrow · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780749322212
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«The Jewel in the Crown» is the historical novel by Paul Scott, published by Arrow in paperback (480 pages, in English).
In colonial India in 1942, during the Second World War, young Englishwoman Daphne Manners arrives in Mayapore and forms a relationship with Hari Kumar, an Indian educated in England. The scandal shakes the British community, exposes the racism of colonial rule and coincides with the rise of the movement for Indian independence.
First instalment of the «The Raj Quartet» saga, originally published in 1966 and reissued by Arrow in 1996.
Readers of historical fiction and twentieth-century British literature who want a view of 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.
