The Raj Quartet, Volume 3: The Towers of Silence
by Paul Scott
University of Chicago Press, 1998
Paper: 978-0-226-74343-1 | eISBN: 978-0-226-02928-3 (all)
Library of Congress Classification PR6069.C596T6 1998
Dewey Decimal Classification 823.914
ABOUT THIS BOOK
The powerful third volume of Paul Scott's classic account of the final days of British rule in India
India, 1943: In a regimental hill station, the ladies of Pankot struggle to preserve the genteel façade of British society amid the debris of a vanishing empire and World War II. A retired missionary, Barbara Batchelor, bears witness to the connections between many human dramas; the love between Daphne Manner and Hari Kumar; the desperate grief an old teacher feels for an India she cannot rescue; and the cruelty of Captain Ronald Merrick, Susan Layton's future husband.
India, 1943: In a regimental hill station, the ladies of Pankot struggle to preserve the genteel façade of British society amid the debris of a vanishing empire and World War II. A retired missionary, Barbara Batchelor, bears witness to the connections between many human dramas; the love between Daphne Manner and Hari Kumar; the desperate grief an old teacher feels for an India she cannot rescue; and the cruelty of Captain Ronald Merrick, Susan Layton's future husband.
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