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Cette saga explore les relations complexes et les bouleversements politiques qui ont marqué le début du XXe siècle, en particulier en Irlande. Elle suit des personnages naviguant dans une période de profonds changements sociétaux, où l'ancien monde cède la place au nouveau. Les récits mêlent avec brio le drame personnel au contexte historique, présentant des personnages vivants et explorant les thèmes de la perte, de l'identité et de la résilience au milieu des troubles. C'est une exploration captivante de l'esprit humain en des temps tumultueux.

The Siege of Krishnapur
The Singapore Grip
Troubles
The Siege of Krishnapur, Troubles: Introduction by John Sutherland
The Singapore grip

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    Troubles

    • 446pages
    • 16 heures de lecture
    3,7(460)Évaluer

    Major Brendan Archer travels to Ireland - to the Majestic Hotel and to the fiancée he acquired on a rash afternoon's leave three years ago. Despite her many letters, the lady herself proves elusive, and the Major's engagement is short-lived. But he is unable to detach himself from the alluring discomforts of the crumbling hotel. Ensconced in the dim and shabby splendour of the Palm Court, surrounded by gently decaying old ladies and proliferating cats, the Major passes the summer. So hypnotic are the faded charms of the Majestic, the Major is almost unaware of the gathering storm. But this is Ireland in 1919 - and the struggle for independence is about to explode with brutal force.

    Troubles
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    The Siege of Krishnapur

    4,0(6150)Évaluer

    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 fifty years. Farrell's story is set in an isolated Victorian outpost on the subcontinent. Rumors of strife filter in from afar, and yet the members of the colonial community remain confident of their military and, above all, moral superiority. But when they find themselves under actual siege, the true character of their dominion--at once brutal, blundering, and wistful--is soon revealed. The Siege of Krishnapur is a companion to Troubles, about the Easter 1916 rebellion in Ireland, and The Singapore Grip, which takes place just before World War II, as the sun begins to set upon the British Empire. Together these three novels offer an unequaled picture of the follies of empire.Winner of the Booker Prize.

    The Siege of Krishnapur
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    The Singapore Grip

    • 688pages
    • 25 heures de lecture
    4,0(1476)Évaluer

    A love story and a war story: a modern classic from Booker prize-winner J.G. Farrell

    The Singapore Grip

  • The Siege of Krishnapur, Troubles: Introduction by John Sutherland

    • 728pages
    • 26 heures de lecture

    Set against the backdrop of the declining British Empire, one novel explores a British outpost during the 1857 Indian Mutiny, revealing the fragility of their perceived superiority amidst siege. The other follows a World War I veteran in 1919 Ireland, searching for his lost fiancée in her family's decaying seaside hotel, now overrun by animals and neglect. As he navigates the crumbling structure, he observes the Empire's fading influence and the brewing unrest of the Irish "Troubles," intertwining personal and historical narratives.

    The Siege of Krishnapur, Troubles: Introduction by John Sutherland