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by J.G. Farrell • Introduction by Pankaj Mishra
Set in India in 1857, the year of bloody rebellion, the novel concerns a Victorian outpost confident of its superior culture and military strength—until it finds itself under siege. Booker Prize winner.
"What a book. It has everything you could expect to find ina big old-fashioned novel or several of them—characters, suspense, military action, romantic attachments, satire, wit, tenderness,philosophy. In my family, nobody, from the age of eighteen to over sixty, could put it down."—Mary McCarthy
5" x 8" • 376 pp
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