An outstanding novel by the Booker Prize-winning author of The Siege of Krishnapur Reissued with a wonderful new cover treatment 'His brilliance of style places him beside such masters of the modern novel as Patrick White and Saul Bellow' Olivia Manning 'A fine piece of work, solid, informative, funny, tragic, one of those novels that presents a whole world for the reader to inhabit' Margaret Drabble 'One of the most outstanding novelists of his generation' Spectator
J.G. Farrell was born in Liverpool in 1935 and spent a good deal of his life abroad, including periods in France and Ireland, where he spent much of his childhood, and a prolonged visit to the Far East to research the background for this novel. Among his novels, TROUBLES won the Faber Memorial Prize in 1970 and THE SIEGE OF KRISHNAPUR won the Booker Prize in 1973. He died in 1979.
One of the most outstanding novelists of his generation
*Spectator*
Brilliant, richly absurd, melancholy
*Observer*
Enjoyable on many different levels
*Sunday Times*
A narrative of exceptional imagination and scope
*Newsweek*
A fine piece of work, informative, funny tragic. One of those
novels that present a whole world for the reader to inhabit
*Margaret Drabble*
No writer has swallowed all of Singapore with the verve and wit of
the late J.G. Farrell
*Time*
His brilliant of style places him beside such masters of the modern
novel as Patrick White and Saul Bellow
*Olivia Manning*
One of the most outstanding novelists of his generation *
Spectator *
Brilliant, richly absurd, melancholy * Observer *
Enjoyable on many different levels * Sunday Times *
A narrative of exceptional imagination and scope * Newsweek
*
A fine piece of work, informative, funny tragic. One of those
novels that present a whole world for the reader to inhabit *
Margaret Drabble *
No writer has swallowed all of Singapore with the verve and wit
of the late J.G. Farrell * Time *
His brilliant of style places him beside such masters of the
modern novel as Patrick White and Saul Bellow * Olivia Manning
*
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