by Paul Scott · HarperCollins Publishers Ltd · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780586038000
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«The Towers of Silence» is the historical fiction novel by Paul Scott, published by HarperCollins Publishers Ltd in paperback (400 pages, in English).
The novel is set in colonial India during the final years of British rule and follows several English and Indian characters whose lives intersect amid political and social tension. Paul Scott combines personal drama with the chronicle of the end of the Empire.
Third volume of the series The Raj Quartet. It was originally published in 1971 and Granada TV produced the television adaptation The Jewel in the Crown based on the series.
For readers of historical fiction and literary fiction, especially those interested in colonial India and the end 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.
