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Original Title:	The Towers of Silence
ISBN:	0226743438 (ISBN13: 9780226743431)
Edition Language:	English
Series:	The Raj Quartet #3
Characters:	Mohammed Ali Kasim, Count Bronowsky, Mabel Layton, Barbie Batchelor, Sarah Layton, Susan Layton, Mildred Layton, Ronald Merrick, Ahmed Kasim, Fenella Grace, Arthur Grace, Kevin Coley
Setting:	India,1943

The Towers of Silence (The Raj Quartet #3)

Paul Scott

Paperback | Pages: 399 pages

Rating: 4.29 | 1185 Users | 85 Reviews

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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.

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Title	:	The Towers of Silence (The Raj Quartet #3)
Author	:	Paul Scott
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	Anniversary Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 399 pages
Published	:	May 22nd 1998 by University of Chicago Press (first published 1971)
Categories	:	Historical. Historical Fiction. Fiction. Cultural. India. Literature

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Thanks once again, Paul Scott, for a wonderful read! Good story-telling remains intact, no matter the passage of years.

"The Raj Quartet" should be read in order. This is the third of 4.

This is the third book in The Raj Quartet, and I found it the most complex so far. It does not pick up where the last one left off, but begins at a point in time even before the first book. More importantly, theres a shift in perspective: were now in the life of Barbie Batchelor, a peripheral character in The Day of the Scorpion. The Quartet has been told from multiple perspectives from the very beginning, but Paul Scotts mastery particularly shines through with Barbie. Usually when books have

"You are now native roses. Of the country. The garden is a native garden. We are only visitors. That has been our mistake. That is why God has not followed us here."This third book in the remarkable Raj Quartet is bursting with metaphor. Barbie Batchelor, the principal character in this installment, likens the roles of the British and Indians in India to that of her companions cherished rose garden. At this particular juncture of the novel, Barbie is in the midst of a transformation of sorts, as

"You are now native roses. Of the country. The garden is a native garden. We are only visitors. That has been our mistake. That is why God has not followed us here."This third book in the remarkable Raj Quartet is bursting with metaphor. Barbie Batchelor, the principal character in this installment, likens the roles of the British and Indians in India to that of her companions cherished rose garden. At this particular juncture of the novel, Barbie is in the midst of a transformation of sorts, as

The clouds of the southwest monsoon, thinned by the overland journey across the parched, open-mouthed, plain, appeared in the Pankot sky, and spilt what moisture they had left, establishing the wet-season pattern of sudden short showers, of morning mist which could be dispersed by the sunshine or give way to a light persistent drizzle. When the sun came out there was a strange mountain chill that did not make itself felt upon the flesh but in the nostrils, mingling there with the pervading

The Parsis - members of the Zoroastrian faith, who have immigrated to India from Iran - do not bury or cremate their dead. The corpses are hung upon huge wooden structures to be picked clean by vultures. (I have seen this place in Mumbai from the outside. No outsiders can enter.)An apt metaphor for a dead empire, being slowly devoured by the vultures of history - seen mostly through the eyes of Barbie Batchelor, a retired missionary schoolteacher: herself an anachronism.Another winner from Paul