Author: Paul Scott
Year: 1977
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Award winners, Fiction
Culture: India
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9780099443193
9780226743493
0099443198
0226743497 |
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Tusker and Lily Smalley stayed on in India. Given the chance to return 'home' when Tusker, once a Colonel in the British Army, retired, they chose instead to remain in the small hill town of Pangkot, with its eccentric inhabitants and archaic rituals left over from the days of the Empire. Only the tyranny of their landlady, the imposing Mrs Bhoolabhoy, threatens to upset the quiet rhythm of their days.
Both funny and deeply moving,
is a unique, engrossing portrait of the end of an empire and of a forty-year love affair.
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