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Format: Paperback
Publisher: Pub Group West
Published: Apr 2004
Genre: Fiction - Literary
Retail Price: $17.95
Pages: 344
A novel set in India in the mid-nineteenth century takes readers to the far outposts of empire where rumors of war often materialize into actual combat, focusing on a British colonial community that finds itself, and its "superior" Victorian values, under siege. Winner of the 1973 Booker Prize. Reprint.