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  <title><![CDATA[The Raj Quartet, Volume 3: The Towers of Silence]]></title>
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  <default_description>&lt;div&gt;India, 1943: In a regimental hill station, the ladies of Pankot struggle to preserve the genteel fa&#231;ade 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. &lt;br&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</default_description>
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  <original_publication_year type="integer">1971</original_publication_year>
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      <name><![CDATA[Paul Scott]]></name>
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  <read_at>Mon Dec 29 00:00:00 -0800 2008</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[A wonderful read. If you are interested in India and its relationship with the British during World War II and if you are willing to read this book slowly to savor the beautiful writing and the tragedy, irony and biting humor then I highly recommend it.  I have read the first 2 books of the Raj Quar...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/40539834">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Tue Jun 30 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[So this one wasn't was good as the first two. I think this is partly because Paul Scott chose to tell most of the story from the point of view of Barbie Batchelor, the character who interested me the least from the previous novel. As was already clear from the beginning of the first novel, Jewel in ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/45074894">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Excellent, but not my favorite in the Raj Quartet.  This book address the same issues as in 2, but from a different individual's perspective.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Couldn't put this book down...it hearkens back to the first book in the series a bit more...heart-breaking and intense.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[The Raj Quartet, Volume 3: The Towers of Silence (Phoenix Fiction Series) by Paul Scott (1998)]]></body>
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  <read_at>Fri Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 1988</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[see review of 'Jewel and the Crown']]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I'm in the beginning of this book, which is the third installment of Scott's epic (and I'm not using that word ironically) quartet about the end of British rule in India. These books are quite dense, so I sometimes take a break from them to read something else that moves more quickly, before coming ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/66525799">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Book three of this series.  ]]></body>
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