James Gordon Farrell: The Siege of Krishnapur
The Siege of Krishnapur
Buch
- Winner of Booker Prize 1973
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- Orion Publishing Group, 05/2008
- Einband: Flexibler Einband, ,
- Sprache: Englisch
- ISBN-13: 9781857994919
- Umfang: 314 Seiten
- Copyright-Jahr: 1996
- Gewicht: 273 g
- Maße: 198 x 128 mm
- Stärke: 27 mm
- Erscheinungstermin: 1.7.1996
Achtung: Artikel ist nicht in deutscher Sprache!
Kurzbeschreibung
'For a novel to be witty is one thing, to tell a good story is another, to be serious is yet another, but to be all three is surely enough to make it a masterpiece' NEW STATESMAN'For a novel to be witty is one thing, to tell a good story is another, to be serious is yet another, but to be all three is surely enough to make it a masterpiece' NEW STATESMAN
Beschreibung
In the Spring of 1857, with India on the brink of a violent and bloody mutiny, Krishnapur is a remote town on the vast North Indian plain. For the British there, life is orderly and genteel. Then the sepoys at the nearest military cantonment rise in revolt and the British community retreats with shock into the Residency. They prepare to fight for their lives with what weapons they can muster. As food and ammunition grow short, the Residency, its defences battered by shot and shell and eroded by the rains, becomes ever more vulnerable.The Siege of Krishnapur is a modern classic of narrative excitement that also digs deep to explore some fundamental questions of civilisation and life.