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The Day of the Scorpion (Raj Quartet, Bk 2)
The Day of the Scorpion - Raj Quartet, Bk 2
Author: Paul Scott
In The Day of the Scorpion, Scott draws us deeper in to his epic of India at the close of World War II. With force and subtlety, he recreates both private ambition and perversity, and the politics of an entire subcontinent at a turning point in history. — As the scorpian, encircled by a ring of fire, will sting itself to death, so does the...  more »
ISBN-13: 9780226743417
ISBN-10: 0226743411
Publication Date: 5/22/1998
Pages: 493
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Publisher: University Of Chicago Press
Book Type: Paperback
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A spectacular explosion of history set off within the lives of a dozen or so Britons and Indians on the edges of vast change...Scott throws us into India, wretched and beautiful...his contribution to literature is permanent.
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Book II of the series: "The Jewel in the crown" ----- The Raj Quartet


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