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by Paul Scott · Hachette Littérature · tapa dura · 449 pages
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Le joyau de la couronne es una aclamada novela de Paul Scott que constituye la primera parte de su famosa tetralogía 'El cuarteto de Alejandría' (The Raj Quartet). Ambientada en la India durante los últimos años del dominio británico, la obra explora las tensiones raciales, políticas y sociales a través de una narrativa coral que comienza con la violación de una joven inglesa y el arresto injusto de un joven indio. Esta edición en francés, publicada por Hachette Littérature y bajo el sello Succès du Livre, ofrece una mirada profunda a la decadencia del imperio y los conflictos de identidad en un periodo de cambio histórico turbulento. Es una pieza fundamental de la literatura anglosajona contemporánea que combina el drama personal con el análisis histórico.
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.
