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Indlæser... The Raj Quartet, Volume 2: The Towers of Silence; A Division of the Spoils (1971)| 119 | 1 | 174,810 | 
(4.46) | 16 | The Raj Quartet, Paul Scott's epic study of British India in its final years, has no equal. Tolstoyan in scope and Proustian in detail but completely individual in effect, it records the encounter between East and West through the experiences of a dozen people caught up in the upheavals of the Second World War and the growing campaign for Indian independence from Britain. In The Towers of Silence, Barbie Batchelor, a British missionary and schoolteacher, befriends a British family and witnesses the trial of Hari Kumar, an Indian man accused of assaulting his beloved Daphne Manners, while observing the dangerously cruel Captain Ronald Merrick, Hari's nemesis. In A Division of the Spoils, the chaos of the departure of the British and the fervor of Partition wreaks havoc upon the twilight of the Raj -- and the end of a era. On occasions unsparing in its study of personal dramas and racial differences, the Raj Quartet is at all times profoundly humane, not least in the author's capacity to identify with a huge range of characters. It is also illuminated by delicate social comedy and wonderful evocations of the Indian scene, all narrated in luminous prose. The other two novels in the Raj Quartet, The Jewel in the Crown and The Day of the Scorpion, are also available from Everyman's Library. With a new introduction by Hilary Spurling… (mere) |
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Oplysninger fra den engelske Almen Viden Redigér teksten, så den bliver dansk. In September 1939, when the war had just begun, Miss Batchelor retired from her post as superintendent of the Protestant mission schools in the city of Ranpur.  | |
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Oplysninger fra den engelske Almen Viden Redigér teksten, så den bliver dansk. ' I walk home, thinking of another place, of seemingly long endless summers and the shade of different kinds of trees, and then of winters when the branches of the trees were so bare, that recalling them now, it seems inconceivable to me that I looked at them and did not think of the summer just gone, and the spring soon to come, as illusions; as dreams, never fulfilled, never to be fulfilled. | |
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Oplysninger fra den engelske Almen Viden Redigér teksten, så den bliver dansk. Fleeting moments: these are held a long time in the eye,
The Blind eye of the ageing poet, So that even you, Gaffur, can imagine In this darkening landscape The Bowman lovingly choosing his arrow, The hawk outpacing the cheetah, ( The fountain splashing lazily in the courtyard), The girl running with the deer. (Klik for at vise Advarsel: Kan indeholde afsløringer.) | |
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