The Raj Quartet, Volume 3: The Towers of Silence

India, 1943: In a regimental hill station, the ladies of Pankot struggle to preserve the genteel façade 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.

• | Author: Paul Scott
• | Publisher: University of Chicago Press
• | Publication Date: May 22, 1998
• | Number of Pages: 399 pages
• | Binding: Paperback or Softback
• | ISBN-10: 0226743438
• | ISBN-13: 9780226743431