The Siege of Krishnapur by J.G. Farrell6/29/2023 ![]() ![]() ![]() The three novels that he did leave are all in their different way extraordinary. "Had he not sadly died so young,” Salman Rushdie said in 2008, "there is no question that he would today be one of the really major novelists of the English language. Troubles and its fellow shortlisted works had not been open for consideration that year due to a change in the eligibility rules.įarrell's career abruptly ended when he drowned in Ireland at the age of 44, falling to his death in a storm. In 2010 Troubles was retrospectively awarded the Lost Man Booker Prize, created to recognise works published in 1970. Esteemed by critics, it won the Booker Prize. Troubles received the 1971 Geoffrey Faber Memorial Prize and The Siege of Krishnapur received the 1973 Booker Prize. Farrell time in India, Farrell produced The Siege of Krishnapur, a fictional treatment of the 185758 Indian Mutiny that blends a lively adventure narrative with an unmistakable critique of British Victorian values. He gained prominence for a series of novels known as the Empire Trilogy ( Troubles, The Siege of Krishnapur and The Singapore Grip), which deal with the political and human consequences of British colonial rule. Published in 1973, The Siege of Krishnapur is a novel which combines an action packed story full of detailed and accurate historical description with a deep but entertaining parody of Victorian beliefs and values and a nuanced critique of colonial rule. ![]() Farrell was an English-born novelist of Irish descent who spent much of his childhood in Ireland. ![]()
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