by Paul Scott · Mandarin · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780749322267
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«The Day of the Scorpion» is the historical novel by Paul Scott, published by Mandarin in paperback (529 pages, in English).
In India in 1942, the detention of former minister Mohammed Ali Kasim opens a wave of arrests of Congress party leaders, while the British Layton family, settled in the country for generations, faces the collapse of its world. Scott interweaves politics and the characters' private lives in the final years of the British Raj.
Second novel of the tetralogy The Raj Quartet, which begins with The Jewel in the Crown. The work was originally published in 1968.
For readers of historical fiction interested in colonial India and in relations between Britons and Indians during the end of the 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.
