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J.G. Farrell details the siege of a fictional town in India in 1857 when Muslim soldiers turned to bloody rebellion against their British overlords. "An idiosyncratic masterpiece, wise and richly comic." - Hilary MantelIndia, 1857 – the year of the Great Mutiny. In an isolated Victorian outpost on the subcontinent, rumours of strife begin to filter in from afar. Yet the members of the colonial community remain confident of their military and, above all, moral superiority. When they find themselves under actual siege, however, the true character of their dominion – at once brutal, blundering and wistful – is soon revealed."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 StatemsanJ.G. Farrell In addition to his 1973 Man Booker Prize for The Siege of Krishnapur, his book Troubles was the winner of the Lost Man Booker Prize, a special prize awarded in 2010 to honour the books that missed out on the opportunity to win the Booker Prize in 1970 due to an eligibility change that year. His family accepted a designer-bound copy of the novel on his behalf.

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Author

J. G. Farrell

Publisher

New York Review of Books, Incorporated, The

Published

2004

Language

EN

ISBN

9781590173732

Category

work of fiction

Subjects

Fiction, Literary Fiction, History

Rating

3.88 / 5 (4,197 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-13