by Paul Scott · HarperCollins Publishers Ltd · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780586038772
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«The Jewel in the Crown» is the historical novel by Paul Scott, published by HarperCollins Publishers Ltd in paperback (480 pages, in English).
The story is set in India in the 1940s, during World War II, as colonial rule begins to waver. Through British and Indian characters, Paul Scott weaves together different voices to portray the racism, moral dilemmas and personal relationships that accompany the end of the British Empire in the subcontinent.
First novel in Paul Scott's The Raj Quartet series; the cover notes its link to the Granada TV television adaptation.
For readers of historical fiction interested in colonial India and the decline of the British Empire.
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.
