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Siege of Krishnapur
Siege of Krishnapur
Author: J.G. Farrell
A darkly humorous picture of the follies of empire, still as relevant as ever, The Siege of Krishnapur is thought by many to be J. G. Farrell's finest book. Set in India in 1857 (the year of the Great Mutiny, when the Indian sepoys rose in bloody rebellion against their complacent British overlords), Farrell's novel concerns a remote Victorian o...  more »
ISBN-13: 9780297765806
ISBN-10: 0297765809
Publication Date: 8/30/1973
Pages: 344
Edition: First Edition
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Publisher: Littlehampton Book Services Ltd
Book Type: Hardcover
Other Versions: Paperback, Audio Cassette
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An interesting, fictional account of the Sepoy Mutiny in India. It also parodies the class distinctions of the British and many of their beliefs. I especially enjoyed the arguments of two doctors about how cholera is transmitted.

This book received the Brooker Prize, a prestigious literary award conferred each year for the best single work of sustained fiction written in the English language, which was published in the United Kingdom and/or Ireland.


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