J. G Farrell
1) Disturbios
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Año 1919, tras sobrevivir a la Gran Guerra, el comandante Brendan Archer viaja a Irlanda para descubrir si todavía sigue prometido a Angela Spencer, cuya familia regenta el hotel Majestic en Kilnalough. Pero al llegar encuentra a su prometida extrañamente alterada y a su futura familia política en plena decadencia económica: el hotel se desmorona poco a poco, los escasos huéspedes que quedan se pasan el día cotilleando y jugando al whist, hordas...
2) Troubles
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Set against the backdrop of growing tensions in Ireland in 1919, a touching, often very funny and yet ultimately rather sad story, which will capture the listener's heart and excite their interest with its themes of Irish politics and love, played out in an unlikely and fragile sanctuary.
The listener is taken back to July 1919, when the 'Major' is visiting the Hotel Majestic in County Cork, Ireland to reunite with his fiancee Angela, the Protestant...
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India, 1857 - the year of the Great Mutiny, when Muslim soldiers turned in bloody rebellion on their British overlords. This time of convulsion is the subject of The Siege of Krishnapur, widely considered to the one of the finest British novels of the last fifty years. A witty and individual take on the many traditions and follies of Empire, it is also a gripping account of survival under siege, illuminating how extreme conditions can influence and...