![]() ![]() Suspense and subtlety, humour and horror, the near-neighbourliness of heroism and insanity: it is rare to find such divergent elements being controlled in one hand and being raced, as it were, in one yoke. Together these three novels offer an unequaled picture of the follies of empire.ĭownload the Reading Group Guide for The Siege of Krishnapur. ![]() The Siege of Krishnapur is a companion to Troubles, about the Easter 1916 rebellion in Ireland, and The Singapore Grip, which takes place just before World War II, as the sun begins to set upon the British Empire. But when they find themselves under actual siege, the true character of their dominion-at once brutal, blundering, and wistful-is soon revealed. ![]() Rumors of strife filter in from afar, and yet the members of the colonial community remain confident of their military and, above all, moral superiority. Farrell’s The Siege of Krishnapur, widely considered one of the finest British novels of the last fifty years.įarrell’s story is set in an isolated Victorian outpost on the subcontinent. This time of convulsion is the subject of J. ![]() India, 1857-the year of the Great Mutiny, when Muslim soldiers turned in bloody rebellion on their British overlords. ![]()
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