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(More customer reviews)have been enjoying reading The Raj Quartet. If you like interesting stories in the classical style, and don't mind lengthy reads , it provides an unusual perspective (part fiction, part real events)of the British in the 30s and 40s. This review is for the third and fourth volume in the series - each volume references the book before it and spends a fair amount of time bringing the reader up to speed on previous events (as the books were originally published separately) , but this is done from the perspective of different characters each time and is not at all repetitive. Before reading, enjoy The Raj Quarter: Jewel in the Crown and Day of the Scorpion as well.
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(Book Jacket Status: Jacketed)With a New Introduction by Hilary Spurling The Raj Quartet, Paul Scott's epic study of British India in its final years, has no equal. Tolstoyan in scope and Proustian in detail but completely individual in effect, it records the encounter between East and West through the experiences of a dozen people caught up in the upheavals of the Second World War and the growing campaign for Indian independence from Britain. In The Towers of Silence, Barbie Batchelor, a British missionary and schoolteacher, befriends a British family and witnesses the trial of Hari Kumar, an Indian man accused of assaulting his beloved Daphne Manners, while observing the dangerously cruel Captain Ronald Merrick, Hari's nemesis. In A Division of the Spoils, the chaos of the departure of the British and the fervor of Partition wreaks havoc upon the twilight of the Raj — and the end of a era. On occasions unsparing in its study of personal dramas and racial differences, the Raj Quartet is at all times profoundly humane, not least in the author's capacity to identify with a huge range of characters. It is also illuminated by delicate social comedy and wonderful evocations of the Indian scene, all narrated in luminous prose.The other two novels in the Raj Quartet, The Jewel in the Crown and The Day of the Scorpion, are also available from Everyman's Library.
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