THE TOWERS OF SILENCE paperback book PAUL SCOTT

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The Towers Of Silence by Paul Scott.

The third book in the Raj Quartet.

As the war moves convulsively into its last bitter stages, the possibility that Japanese soldiers with guns and paper umbrellas may appear on the golf course at Pankot and that an Indian army might fight beside them, cannot be denied.

Gathered in Pankot already is a microcosm of English society - rigid with the sense of duty and brittle with the awareness of class. Mabel Layton, doyenne of Pankot society, has withdrawn to her inner view of India and her preoccupation with her rose garden, talking with her Barbie Batchelor - forthright, talkative and of simple background. Both are shaken in their belief in the old order of things, while the likes of Captain Merrick and the British military struggle to uphold the myth of British invincibility in the face of irreversible change.

Pan books.

Good used condition. Minor wear only but some yellowing to the pages.

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