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The Siege Of Krishnapur: Winner of the Booker Prize (W&N Essentials)

The Siege Of Krishnapur: Winner of the Booker Prize (W&N Essentials)

by J.G.Farrell (Author)

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    Paperback 1996

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    Paperback 1999

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    Paperback 2004

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Synopsis

In the Spring of 1857, with India on the brink of a violent and bloody mutiny, Krishnapur is a remote town on the vast North Indian plain. For the British there, life is orderly and genteel. Then the sepoys at the nearest military cantonment rise in revolt and the British community retreats with shock into the Residency. They prepare to fight for their lives with what weapons they can muster. As food and ammunition grow short, the Residency, its defences battered by shot and shell and eroded by the rains, becomes ever more vulnerable. The Siege of Krishnapur is a modern classic of narrative excitement that also digs deep to explore some fundamental questions of civilisation and life.

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Format: Paperback
 Pages: 400
 Edition: New Ed
 Publisher: Weidenfeld & Nicolson
Published: 01 Jul 1996
ISBN 10: 1857994914
ISBN 13: 9781857994919
Book Overview: 'For a novel to be witty is one thing, to tell a good story is another, to be serious is yet another, but to be all three is surely enough to make it a masterpiece' NEW STATESMAN
 Prizes: Winner of Booker Prize for Fiction 1973. Shortlisted for Best of the Booker 2008.

Media Reviews
While I can't categorically state it's the best book ever, I find it hard to think of one that I prefer. One that does more as a work of fiction, or that says more about our flawed humanity . . . The Siege of Krishnapur is a superb portrayal of physical horrors and psychological fallout . . . [It] is wonderfully funny, written with devastating wit and rambunctious humanity. I can't praise it enough - and I can't push it enough -- Sam Jordison * Guardian *
Inspired, funny but ultimately tragic look at colonialism in India. It has an unusual exuberance -- Mariella Frostrup
For a novel to be witty is one thing, to tell a good story is another, to be serious is yet another, but to be all three is surely enough to make it a masterpiece * New Statesman *
A novel of quite outstanding quality * The Times *
Author Bio

J.G. Farrell was born in Liverpool in 1935 and spent a good deal of his life abroad, including periods in France and North America, and then settled in London where he wrote most of his novels.

Among his novels, TROUBLES won the Faber Memorial Prize in 1970 and the Lost Man Booker prize in 2010 and THE SIEGE OF KRISHNAPUR won the Booker Prize in 1973.

In April 1979 he went to live in County Cork where only four months later he was drowned in a fishing accident.