Deze epische saga, gesitueerd in India tijdens de laatste dagen van de Britse Raj, duikt in de ingewikkelde relaties, politieke spanningen en persoonlijke tragedies die zich ontvouwen. De serie onderzoekt de botsing van culturen, morele ambiguïteiten en gepassioneerde conflicten die zowel individuen als de samenleving vormen. Het biedt een diepgaande kijk op de schemering van het kolonialisme en de impact ervan op de levens die erin verstrikt raken. Dit is een verhaal over liefde, verraad en de zoektocht naar identiteit te midden van tumultueuze veranderingen.
The jewel in the crown, the first volume of the Raj quartet, opens in 1942 as the British fear both Japanese invasion and Indian demands for independence. On the night after the Indian Congress Party votes to support Gandhi, riots break out and an ambitious police sergeant arrests a young Indian for the alleged rape of the woman they both love
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 scorpion, encircled by a ring of fire, will sting itself to death, so does the British Raj hasten its own destruction when threatened by the flames of Indian independence. Brutal repression and imprisonment of India's leaders cannot still the cry for home rule. And in the midst of chaos, the English Laytons withdraw from a world they no longer know to seek solace in denial, drink, and madness.
Bound in cloth, printed and blocked with a design by Finn Campbell-Notman. Set in Sabon. Frontispiece and six full-page illustrations by Finn Campbell-Notman. 9½" × 6¼". Vol. 3 of the FS 2009 Raj Quartet boxed set.
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This is Paul Scott's 1977 Booker Prize-winning novel of India and the end of the British Empire and two of its last surviving members, the Tusker Smalley and his wife Lucy. Paul Scott also wrote "The Jewel in the Crown" and "The Raj Quartet".