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  The Siege of Krishnapur (Paperback) By (author) J. G. Farrell

  

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  Short Description for The Siege of Krishnapur'For a novel to be witty is one thing, to tell a good story is another, to be serious is yet another, but to be all three is surely enough to make it a masterpiece' NEW STATESMAN
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  • Publisher: Phoenix (an Imprint of The Orion Publishing Group Ltd )
  • Published: 01 July 1996
  • Format: Paperback 400 pages
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  • Categories: Contemporary Fiction | Historical Fiction
  • ISBN 13: 9781857994919 ISBN 10: 1857994914
  • Sales rank: 9,756

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• 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.