The Siege of Krishnapur

J G Farrell

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English

Phoenix
01 October 1996

Fiction & Literature; Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945); Historical fiction; Booker Prizes

Series: W&N Essentials

In the Spring of 1857, with India on the brink of a violent and bloody mutiny, Krishnapur is a remote town on the vast North Indian plain.

For the British there, life is orderly and genteel.

Then the sepoys at the nearest military cantonment rise in revolt and the British community retreats with shock into the Residency.

They prepare to fight for their lives with what weapons they can muster.

As food and ammunition grow short, the Residency, its defences battered by shot and shell and eroded by the rains, becomes ever more vulnerable.

The Siege of Krishnapur is a modern classic of narrative excitement that also digs deep to explore some fundamental questions of civilisation and life.

By: J G Farrell
Imprint: Phoenix
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 198mm, Width: 128mm, Spine: 28mm
Weight: 280g
ISBN: 9781857994919
ISBN 10: 1857994914
Series: W&N Essentials
Pages: 400
Publication Date: 01 October 1996
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

J.G. Farrell was born in Liverpool in 1935 and spent a good deal of his life abroad, including periods in France and North America, and then settled in London where he wrote most of his novels. In April 1979 he went to live in County Cork where only four months later he was drowned in a fishing accident.

Reviews for The Siege of Krishnapur

The best of all the Booker winners (from 1973). This is a novel not so much about personal relationships (though these are important) nor about an actual historical event (though the setting is the Indian Mutiny of 1857-58) as about an atmosphere, a climate of tension. Farrell transported me to a place in India under siege so completely that I swear I felt the heat, the fear, the thirst, and had forced upon me, as the characters described do, agonizing decisions to do with what constitutes Good as opposed to Evil. Review by Margaret Forster, whose books include 'The Memory Box' (Kirkus UK)