The Raj Quartet, Volume 3: The Towers of Silence (Phoenix Fiction)
India, 1943: In a regimental hill station, the ladies of Pankot struggle to preserve the genteel façade of British society amid the debris of a vanishing empire and World War II. A retired missionary, Barbara Batchelor, bears witness to the connections between many human dramas; the love between...
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India, 1943: In a regimental hill station, the ladies of Pankot struggle to preserve the genteel façade of British society amid the debris of a vanishing empire and World War II. A retired missionary, Barbara Batchelor, bears witness to the connections between many human dramas; the love between Daphne Manner and Hari Kumar; the desperate grief an old teacher feels for an India she cannot rescue; and the cruelty of Captain Ronald Merrick, Susan Layton's future husband.
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Format: paperback
ISBN:
9780226743431 (0226743438)
ASIN: 0226743438
Publish date: 1998-05-22
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Pages no: 399
Edition language: English