The Siege of Krishnapur (Audiobook)

from brenzi

This is a novel of change. Set in 1857 and based on the Siege of Lucknow, at a far remote Indian outpost, many miles from Calcutta, it tells the story of the mutiny of the native sepoys but more importantly, solidifies the total ignorance of the British in thinking their superiority over all thin...

from datrappert

This is a marvelous book that works on many different levels. It is a tense novel of increasing doom as the British residents of Krishnapur hold out against overwhelming odds during the Sepoy Rebellion in 1857. It is also an indictment of British colonialism--the reader has to ask more than once,...

from lmichet

While perusing the other user reviews, I noticed that some think that this book is not gripping. What? What, I ask? At times this book reads like a movie. I don't know exactly how to express it. At times the story is slower, yes, but it slows down to make satire and speeds up liberally for action...

from msf59

“The British could leave and half India wouldn't notice us leaving just as they didn't notice us arriving. All our reforms of administration might be reforms on the moon for all it has to do with them..” “India itself was now a different place; the fiction of happy natives being led forward alon...

from Kristelh

Fictional tale of the Sepoy Uprising in India in 1857 to 1858 written by J. G. Farrell and winner of the Booker in 1973. The story was well written and very readable. A siege is not a pretty thing, to be surrounded by the enemy and all you have are limited resources of defense (both arms and men)...