by Paul Scott · Arrow · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780099436164
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«The Towers of Silence» is the historical novel by Paul Scott, published by Arrow in paperback (432 pages, in English).
At the end of the Second World War, the British Raj in India is crumbling. In the hill station of Pankot, the English families of the officers see old certainties waver. Captain Merrick, professional in appearance but corrupt and brutal, cannot stop a change that undermines the idea that the British Empire is unbeatable.
«The Towers of Silence» is the third novel in the series «The Raj Quartet»; it was originally published in 1971.
For readers of historical fiction and literary fiction set in colonial India and the Second World War.
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.
