by Paul Scott · Seix Barral · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788432240065
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«Las torres de silencio» is the historical novel by Paul Scott, published by Seix Barral in paperback (339 pages, in Spanish).
The novel is set in twentieth-century India, in the final years of British rule, and follows Barbara Batchelor, a retired superintendent of Protestant mission schools, as silence, power, and human relationships intertwine in an era of change.
This novel is the third installment of the series «La Joya de la Corona» (The Raj Quartet); the English original, «The Towers of Silence», was published in 1971.
For readers of historical fiction interested in colonial India and the decline 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.
