by Paul Scott · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780586045855
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«Staying On» is the novel by Paul Scott that continues 'The Raj Quartet', published in paperback (255 pages, in English).
Lucy and Tusker Smalley, a British couple, remain in their bungalow in Pankot after Indian independence, when they no longer hold their colonial status and the rest of their compatriots have returned to England. Lucy, tired of accommodating her husband, tries to assert herself; between them surface tensions of class, loneliness, anger and stubborn affection.
Fifth installment of the 'The Raj Quartet' series and winner of the Booker Prize in 1977; this edition was published in 1978.
For readers of historical and literary fiction about colonial India and the end of the British Raj.
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.
