Staying On

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Description

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, Staying On is a unique, engrossing portrait of the end of an empire and of a forty-year love affair.

Additional information

Weight 0.181 kg
Dimensions 1.6 × 12.9 × 19.8 cm
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Format

Paperback

Language

Pages

256

Publisher

Year Published

1999-9-2

Imprint

Publication City/Country

London, United Kingdom

ISBN 10

0099443198

About The Author

Paul Scott was born in London in 1920. He served in the army from 1940 to 1946, mainly in India and Malaya. He is the author of thirteen distinguished novels including his famous The Raj Quartet. In 1977, Staying On won the Booker Prize. Paul Scott died in 1978.

Staying On covers only a few months but it carries the emotional impact of a lifetime, even a civilisation

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Certainly his funniest and, I think, his best. it is a first-class book and deserves to be remembered for a long time

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