The Siege of Krishnapur, Troubles. J. G. Farrell

The Siege of Krishnapur, Troubles


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The Siege of Krishnapur, Troubles J. G. Farrell
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Vote for The Siege of Krishnapur at themanbookerprize.com. I recently read Troubles by J G Farrell and am about to pick up his The Siege of Krishnapur. So wrote the New Statesman of Having read and loved JG Farrrell's Troubles (set in Ireland at the time of the 1916 rebellion) last June, I thought this one, which deals with the Indian mutiny of 1857, would be a good choice to take with me to India, and how right I was. This is not the case for The Siege of Krishnapur, a novel that relates the Sepoy Mutiny of 1857 from the perspective of a besieged cantonment's British inhabitants. Farrell's Siege of Krishanpur (a creative retelling about seemingly hapless Brits during the Sepoy known over here as some of the other names on the list (Rushdie, Gordimer, Carey, Coetzee, Barker), but his inclusion on the shortlist points to the importance of his "Empire Trilogy"—which also comprises Troubles (about Ireland) and The Singapore Grip. Troubles and The Siege of Krishnapur are classics. Farrell The other two books, Troubles, and The Singapore Grip address further follies of British colonialism, namely Ireland in the 1920's, and Singapore on the eve of World War II. Not suggesting this as a blog project, but if any of you have room on your reading list, and you haven't read J.G. I loved J.G Farrell's The Troubles, which puts a dramatic and h The Siege of Krishnapur umorous story about anglo Irish Hotel residents against the background of Ireland's fight for independence in 1919. "For a novel to be witty is one thing, to tell a good story is another, to be serious is yet another, but to be all three is surely enough to make it a masterpiece". Farrell's Empire Trilogy, I highly recommend that you do so. The Siege of Krishnapur by J.G. Now the shortlist has been announced, and J.G. He is perhaps most well known for his Empire trilogy, which consisted of Troubles, The Siege of Krishnapur and The Singapore Grip- novels about British colonialism and its effects on the colonies.





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