The Jewel in the Crown - Paul Scott - 2010
The Raj Quartet, Book 1
By: Paul Scott
Narrated by: Richard Brown
Series: The Raj Quartet, Book 1
Length: 22 hrs and 41 mins
Unabridged Audiobook
Release date: 05-11-10
Categories: Literature & Fiction, Literary Fiction, India Historical Fiction
Language: English
Publisher: Random House Audio
Format: mp3 64/48 stereo
The first volume in Paul Scott's historical tour-de-force opens in 1942 as the British fear both Japanese invasion and Indian demands for self-rule. In the Mayapore gardens, Daphne Manners, daughter of the provincial governor, leaves her Indian lover, who will soon be arrested for her alleged rape.
©2010 Paul Scott (P)2010 Random House
Critic Reviews
“An artful triumph...[The Jewel in the Crown] goes forward with considerable power and urgency....Besides storytelling, Mr. Scott uses his remarkable techniques to portray a place and a time, a society and its social arrangements, that are now history.” (The New Yorker)
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