by Paul Scott · Diagonal -Grupo 62 · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788495808493
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«Los rezagados» is the novel by Paul Scott, published by Diagonal - Grupo 62 in paperback (320 pages, in Spanish).
Set in India after the end of British rule, it tells the life of Tusker and Lucy Smalley in Pankot after his military retirement. Amid ancient traditions and singular neighbors, the landlady Mrs. Bhoolabhoy disrupts their placidity, in a tale about the twilight of empire and the wear of a marriage of over forty years.
A continuation of Paul Scott's The Raj Quartet series, it was originally published as Staying On and won the Booker Prize in 1977.
For readers of historical and literary fiction, especially those interested in the British presence 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.
