Towers of Silence (The Raj Quartet, Volume 3)
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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. Booknews Reprint of the 1972 edition which is cited in as part of the . Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.
