by Paul Scott · Sylvie Messinger · tapa blanda · ISBN 9782865830480
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«Le Joyau de la couronne» is the historical novel by Paul Scott, published by Sylvie Messinger in paperback in 1985 (449 pages, in French).
In India in 1942, during World War II, the novel begins with the rape of a young Englishwoman during the anti-British riots in Mayapore. From this emerge the stories of British and Indian characters, such as Daphne Manners and Hari Kumar, trapped by differences of race and class while the country demands its independence.
The work belongs to the series Le Quatuor indien, of which it is the first instalment; its original title, The Jewel in the Crown, was published in 1966.
For readers of historical and literary fiction interested in British colonialism and Indian independence.
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.
