The Siege of Krishnapur

✍ J. G. Farrell; Pankaj Mishra 📂 Fiction 📅 1990;1997 🏛 NYRB Classics;Carroll & Graf, Distributed by Publi 🌐 English ⚖ 223 KB 👁 1 views

### Amazon.com Review _"The first sign of trouble at Krishnapur came with a mysterious distribution of chapatis, made of coarse flour and about the size and thickness of a biscuit; towards the end of February 1857, they swept the countryside like an epidemic."_ Students of history will recognize

The siege of Krishnapur

✍ Farrell, J.G. 📂 Fiction 📅 2004;1997 🏛 New York Review Books;Carroll & Graf, Distributed 🌐 UND ⚖ 223 KB

SUMMARY: Winner of the booker prize.India, 1857—the year of the Great Mutiny, when Muslim soldiers turned in bloody rebellion on their British overlords. This time of convulsion is the subject of J. G. Farrell's The Siege of Krishnapur, widely considered one of the finest British novels of the last

The siege of Krishnapur

✍ Farrell, J.G. 📂 Fiction 📅 2004;1997 🏛 New York Review Books;Carroll & Graf, Distributed 🌐 UND ⚖ 223 KB

SUMMARY: Winner of the booker prize.India, 1857—the year of the Great Mutiny, when Muslim soldiers turned in bloody rebellion on their British overlords. This time of convulsion is the subject of J. G. Farrell's The Siege of Krishnapur, widely considered one of the finest British novels of the last

The Siege of Syracuse

✍ Dan Armstrong 📂 Fiction 📅 2017 🏛 Mud City Press 🌐 English ⚖ 260 KB 👁 1 views

Children of the Siege

✍ Diney Costeloe 📂 Fiction 📅 2019 🏛 Head of Zeus 🌐 English ⚖ 455 KB

A lost child, a family divided, the bitter backdrop of war - the ingredients of a classic Diney Costeloe story, set in 19th-century France. After the Franco-Prussian War and the siege of 1870-71, the St Clair family return to Paris, seeking refuge and security, only to be swept up into the terribl

The Siege of Macindaw

✍ John Flanagan 📂 Fiction 📅 2010;2009 🏛 Philomel;Penguin Group US 🌐 English ⚖ 168 KB 👁 1 views

SUMMARY: After years as a Ranger’s apprentice, Will is now the protector of his first fief. Not long into his service, everything that can go wrong does: Keren, a renegade knight, has taken over Castle Macindaw, a strategic gateway to the North—poisoning the royal family in the process—and is hold