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Informationen zum Autor Paul Scott (1920-78) was a British novelist best known for the tetralogy The Raj Quartet, published by the University of Chicago Press. Scott was drafted into the British Army during World War II and was stationed in India, an experience which shaped much of his literary work. The University of Chicago Press has also published his novels The Birds of Paradise , The Chinese Love Pavilion , Six Days in Marapore and Staying On , the latter of which won the Booker Prize for 1977. Klappentext The powerful, moving second volume of Paul Scott's classic account of the last days of British rule in India 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. Zusammenfassung In this volume! readers meet Mabel Layton and her daughters! stranded in their colonial mansion awaiting Colonel Layton's return from war. As the flames of independence continue to threaten the Raj! leaders of the Indian Congress are rounded up into British prisons.
