by Paul Scott · Seix Barral · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788432240010
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«La joya de la corona» is the historical novel by Paul Scott, published by Seix Barral in paperback (408 pages, in Spanish).
Set in India in 1942, in the final years of British rule, the novel interweaves the lives of British and Indian characters shaken by an incident in the Bibighar gardens. Paul Scott thus portrays the love, hatred and racial tensions of a society on the brink of change.
First installment of the tetralogy «El cuarteto del Raj»; the original work was published in English in 1966 as The Jewel in the Crown.
For readers of historical fiction and literary fiction, especially those interested in the end of British colonization in 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.
