The Exile - Couverture souple

Sarna, Navtej

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0143068822 ISBN 13 : 9780143068822

Editeur : Penguin Books India Pvt Ltd, 2016

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Présentation de l'éditeur

In 1839, Maharaja Ranjit Singh of Punjab died and His Empire was plunged into chaos. Less than a decade later, weakened by internecine rivalry, Punjab fell into the hands of the British. The ruler who signed away the kingdom and it's treasures, including the famed Koh-i-noor diamond, was the eleven year old Duleep Singh, the youngest of Ranjit Singh's acknowledged sons. Soon after the British annexed his kingdom, Duleep was separated from his mother and his people, taken under British guardianship and converted to christianity. At 16 he was transported to England to live the life of a country squire - an exile that he had been schooled to seek himself. But disillusionment with the treatment meted out to him, and a late realization of his lost legacy turned Duleep into a rebel. He became a Sikh again and sought to return to his people. The attempt would drag him into the murky politics of 19th century Europe, leaving him depleted and vulnerable to every kind of deceit and ridicule. His end came in a cheap hotel room in Paris,but not before one last act of betrayal and humiliation !

Revue de presse

'A better story on the Punjab's first family could not have been told' --- Business Standard

'Navtej Sarna.............has written a novel that is as true to History as can be, without shearing off the embellishments of fiction' ---The Week

'A dextrose mix of fact and fiction by a master storyteller that holds the reader spellbound'. --Khushwant Singh

À propos de cette édition

• Éditeur: Penguin Books India Pvt Ltd
• Date d'édition: 2016
• ISBN 10: 0143068822
• ISBN 13: 9780143068822
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 254