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Paul Scott’s sequel to The Raj Quartet is both an engrossing portrait of the end of an empire and an engaging dissection of a long-lasting marriage. "A graceful comic coda to the earlier song of India... No one writing knows or can evoke an Anglo-Indian setting better than Scott" (Paul Gray, Time).Colonel Tusker and Lucy Smalley stay on in the hills of Pankot after Indian independence deprives them of their colonial status. Finally fed up with accommodating her husband, Lucy claims a degree of independence herself. Eloquent and hilarious, she and Tusker act out class tensions among the British of the Raj and give voice to the loneliness, rage and stubborn affection in their marriage."Again Scott illumines character with a sense of both the tragic and ridiculous, and this is a memorable portrait of two hanging on after the party is over: "I mean everyone else gone home and just Tusker and me, peering out into the dark, waiting for transport home that never turned up." Funny, sad, and insidiously moving." - Kirkus ReviewsPaul Scott is the author of 13 distinguished novels, including his famous The Raj Quartet. He served in the army from 1940 to 1946, mainly in India and Malaya. Hi

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Author

Paul Scott, Paul Scott

Publisher

University of Chicago Press

Published

2013

Language

EN

ISBN

9780226743493

Category

work of fiction

Subjects

Fiction, Literary Fiction, Peoples & Cultures Fiction

Rating

4.3 / 5 (831 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14