The Towers of Silence
  • Published:
    1971 (Hardcover)
    Aug-1992 (Paperback)
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  • Main Genre:
    General Fiction
  • Time Period:
    British India 1940's-1950's
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Third in the epic quartet about the end of the Raj: “Scott throws us into India, wretched and beautiful . . . His contribution to literature is permanent.” -- The New York Times Book Review

India, 1943: In a regimental hill station, the ladies of Pankot struggle to preserve the genteel façade of British society amid the debris of a vanishing empire and World War II. A retired missionary, Barbara Batchelor, bears witness to the connections between many human dramas -- the love between Daphne Manner and Hari Kumar; the desperate grief an old teacher feels for an India she cannot rescue; and the cruelty of Captain Ronald Merrick, Susan Layton's future husband.

This is the third novel in the Raj Quartet, a series of historical novels that “limn the Anglo-Indian world with its lovers, friends, family servants, soldiers, businessmen, murderers and suicides -- all involved in one another's fate” (The New York Times).

“Scott has the trick of being sympathetic without ever losing his clearsightedness.” -- Times Literary Supplement
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    • Aug-1992
    • Avon
    • Trade Paperback
    • ISBN: 0380718103
    • ISBN13: 9780380718108
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    • Dec-1984
    • Avon
    • Mass Market Paperback
    • ISBN: 0380441985
    • ISBN13: 9780380441983
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    • 1996
    • Random House
    • Paperback
    • ISBN: 0749322314
    • ISBN13: 9780749322311
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    • May-1998
    • University of Chicago Press
    • Trade Paperback
    • ISBN: 0226743438
    • ISBN13: 9780226743431
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    • Sep-2001
    • Random House (UK)
    • Paperback
    • ISBN: 0099436167
    • ISBN13: 9780099436164
    • First Edition
    • Jun-1972
    • William Morrow
    • Hardcover
    • ISBN: 068800105X
    • ISBN13: 9780688001056
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    • Jan-1971
    • William Heinemann (UK)
    • Hardcover
    • ISBN: 0434681105
    • ISBN13: 9780434681105
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    • Jul-2007
    • Everyman's Library
    • Hardcover
    • ISBN: 0307263975
    • ISBN13: 9780307263971
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    • May-2010
    • University of Chicago Press
    • eBook
    • ISBN: 022602928X
    • ISBN13: 9780226029283
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    • Oct-2012
    • University of Chicago Press
    • eBook (Kindle)
    •  
    • Oct-2012
    • William Heinemann (UK)
    • eBook
    • ISBN: 1409006956
    • ISBN13: 9781409006954
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    • Jan-2000
    • ISIS Audio Books
    • Audio Cassette
    • ISBN: 0753103419
    • ISBN13: 9780753103418
    •  
    • May-2010
    • Random House Audio
    • Audible
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    • Apr-1985
    • G.K. Hall & Company
    • Hardcover
    • ISBN: 081613846X
    • ISBN13: 9780816138463
    • Large Print



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