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| Original Title: | The Towers of Silence |
| ISBN: | 0226743438 (ISBN13: 9780226743431) |
| Edition Language: | English |
| Series: | The Raj Quartet #3 |
| Characters: | Mohammed Ali Kasim, Count Bronowsky, Mabel Layton, Barbie Batchelor, Sarah Layton, Susan Layton, Mildred Layton, Ronald Merrick, Ahmed Kasim, Fenella Grace, Arthur Grace, Kevin Coley |
| Setting: | India,1943 |
Paul Scott
Paperback | Pages: 399 pages Rating: 4.29 | 1185 Users | 85 Reviews
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| Title | : | The Towers of Silence (The Raj Quartet #3) |
| Author | : | Paul Scott |
| Book Format | : | Paperback |
| Book Edition | : | First Edition |
| Pages | : | Pages: 399 pages |
| Published | : | May 22nd 1998 by University of Chicago Press (first published 1971) |
| Categories | : | Historical. Historical Fiction. Fiction. Cultural. India. Literature |
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India, 1943: In a regimental hill station, the ladies of Pankot struggle to preserve the genteel façade of British society amid the debris of a vanishing empire and World War II. A retired missionary, Barbara Batchelor, bears witness to the connections between many human dramas; the love between Daphne Manner and Hari Kumar; the desperate grief an old teacher feels for an India she cannot rescue; and the cruelty of Captain Ronald Merrick.Rating Epithetical Books The Towers of Silence (The Raj Quartet #3)
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This book primarily focuses on women. The European females who populated the earlier volumes, peripherally or otherwise (the sisters, for instance, and deaf Aunt Mabel), are seen, as they unwittingly shed their British heritage, through the eyes of Barbie, a sexless, spinster missionary, entering their circles of life in rural India as she reaches the end of her own. And as the raj likewise crumbles around them, and WW2 ravages on, dominating the outside world and stealing men periodically fromThis is the third instalment of Scotts Raj Quartet. I must admit to a little confusion when I started the book. I was pretty sure Id not read it, but the story seemed very familiar. At least, it sort of did. And when the narrative referred to something I remembered clearly from an earlier book in the quartet, but here it all happened off-stage, I realised that Scott was covering ground previously described but this time from different characters viewpoints. So, for example, when Sarah Layton
This is the third of a quartet of books about the dying days of the British Raj in India. The affect is cumulative, with each successive novel building on the last, going back and forth in time, with important characters in one book becoming minor ones in another. This was the best one so far, not because of a perceptible difference in writing or plot, but because my understanding of this place and time is so much deeper. The arrogance of the British, the resentment of the Indians, both Hindu
Barbie's Book In September 1939, when the war had just begun, Miss Batchelor retired from her post as superintendent of the Protestant mission schools in the city of Ranpur. Her elevation to superintendent had come towards the end of her career in the early part of 1938. At the time she knew it was a sop but tackled the job with her characteristic application to every trivial detail, which meant that her successor, a Miss Jolley, would have her work cut out untangling some of the
Installment number three in Paul Scotts Indian quartet, The Towers of Silence is a heady and emotionally exacting read. Imagine my surprise when, instead of opening his next installment with the continuing story of Sarah Layton, Scott chooses to bring forward a rather minor character in the person of Barbara (Barbie) Bachelor. Of course, before we have reached the end of the novel, Bachelor is not a minor character at all, she is in fact a crux or hub around which what is happening in India can
This book is the third one of the series The Raj Quartet.Some historical background which is important in order to follow the plot:Pankot, Barbie Batchlor's new home:Page 50: Gandhi's quit India resolution (Quit India Movement), August 14th, 1942.Page 100: Subhas Chandra Bose takes the leadership of the Indian National Army.Page 284: ...the defeat of the Japanese attempt to invade India at Imphal...The plot is set in Pankot which is a "second class" hill station in the province which serves as a
"The Raj Quartet" should be read in order. This is the third of 4.
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