Winner of the booker prize.
India, 1857--the year of the Great Mutiny, when Muslim soldiers
turned in bloody rebellion on their British overlords. This time of
convulsion is the subject of J. G. Farrell's "The Siege of
Krishnapur," widely considered one of the finest British novels of
the last fifty years.
Farrell's story is set in an isolated Victorian outpost on the
subcontinent. Rumors of strife filter in from afar, and yet the
members of the colonial community remain confident of their
military and, above all, moral superiority. But when they find
themselves under actual siege, the true character of their
dominion--at once brutal, blundering, and wistful--is soon
revealed. "The Siege of Krishnapur" is a companion to "Troubles,"
about the Easter 1916 rebellion in Ireland, and "The Singapore
Grip," which takes place just before World War II, as the sun
begins to set upon the British Empire. Together these three novels
offer an unequaled picture of the follies of empire.
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