Winner of the Lost Man Booker Prize, the first of J.G. Farrell’s Empire trilogy is set in Ireland in 1919, when the struggle for independence is about to explode with brutal force
J.G. Farrell
J.G. Farrell was born in Liverpool, England, and spent much of his life abroad. He finally settled in London, where he wrote most of his novels
His travels included long periods in France and North America. In April 1979, he went to live in County Cork, Ireland, where only four months later, aged 44, he drowned in a fishing accident. In addition to winning the Man Booker Prize in 1973 for The Siege of Krishnapur, he was the winner – for his book Troubles – of the Lost Man Booker Prize, a special, one-off prize awarded in 2010 to honour the books that missed out on the opportunity to win the Booker Prize in 1970 due to an eligibility change that year. His family accepted a designer-bound copy of the novel on his behalf.
The Siege of Krishnapur
Winner of The Booker Prize 1973
- By
- J.G. Farrell
- Published by
- Weidenfeld & Nicolson
J.G. Farrell details the siege of a fictional town in India in 1857, when Muslim soldiers turned to bloody rebellion against their British overlords
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