by Paul Scott · DIAGONAL: GRUP · tapa dura · ISBN 9788495808097
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«Reparto de despojos» is the novel by Paul Scott, published in 2001 by Diagonal in hardcover (718 pages, in Spanish).
The novel is set in the final days of the British Raj in India, when the separation of India and Pakistan is imminent. It follows Guy Perron, a sergeant and historian, and British families facing farewells and decisions about their future while Hindus and Muslims experience political and territorial tensions.
Fourth installment of the tetralogy «El Cuarteto del Raj»; the original title is «A Division of the Spoils».
For readers of historical fiction interested in the decolonization of 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.
