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Staying On

Staying On

Published
1977
Language
English

Synopsis

Tusker and Lucy Smalley, an aging British couple, are the last of the Raj still living in the small Indian hill town of Pankot decades after independence. A coda to Paul Scott's Raj Quartet, and winner of the 1977 Booker Prize.

About the author

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Paul Scott

Paul Scott (1920–1978) was an English novelist best known for The Raj Quartet, his four-novel account of the final years of British rule in India: The Jewel in the Crown (1966), The Day of the Scorpion (1968), The Towers of Silence (1971) and A Division of the Spoils (1975). He served with the British Indian Army from 1943 to 1946, an experience that shaped his fiction. His novel Staying On, a coda to the Quartet, won the Booker Prize in 1977.