Bhowani Junction

Informationen zum Autor John Masters was a British novelist and regular officer of the Indian Army. He wrote several novels set in India, the most famous of which, Bhowani Junction , was turned into a successful film starring Ava Gardner. He died in 1983. Klappentext Classic novel! which evokes the tensions and conflicts at the birth of modern India. Vorwort A magnificent novel of the British Empire and its aftermath, from the author of Nightrunners of Bengal Zusammenfassung Bhowani Junction is set in the wake of the partition of India, as the British prepare to withdraw from the newly independent country. Evoking the tensions and conflicts that accompanied the birth of modern India, the characters struggle to find their place in the new India that is emerging. In the last hectic days of the British Raj, Victoria has to choose between marrying a British Army officer or a Sikh, Ranjit, as she struggles to find her place in the new, independent India.One of John Masters' seven novels which followed several generations of the Savage family serving in the British Army in India, it is Masters' most famous novel, and was made into a film in 1956, starring Ava Gardener and Stewart Granger.

Product details

• Authors: John Masters
• Publisher: Souvenir Press Ltd
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 24.05.2001
• EAN: 9780285636040
• ISBN: 978-0-285-63604-0
• No. of pages: 416
• Dimensions: 127 mm x 197 mm x 28 mm
• Series: Story-Tellers S.; Story-Tellers
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945), FICTION / Literary, Modern and contemporary fiction: general and literary