num_pages: 483
description: In The Day of the Scorpion, Scott draws us deeper in to his epic of India at the close of World War II. With force and subtlety, he recreates both private ambition and perversity, and the politics of an entire subcontinent at a turning point in history. As the scorpion, encircled by a ring of fire, will sting itself to death, so does the British raj hasten its own destruction when threatened by the flames of Indian independence. Brutal repression and imprisonment of India's leaders cannot still the cry for home rule. And in the midst of chaos, the English Laytons withdraw from a world they no longer know to seek solace in denial, drink, and madness.
language: English
title: The Day of the Scorpion
titlecomplete: The Day of the Scorpion (The Raj Quartet, #2)
characters: Mohammed Ali Kasim, Barbie Batchelor, Sarah Layton, Ahmed Kasim, Nigel Rowan, Captain Rowan, Mabel Layton, Ronald Merrick, Hari Kumar, Susan Layton, Count Bronowsky, Mildred Layton
genres: Fiction, Historical, British Literature, India, Literature, Classics, Novels, Historical Fiction, 20th Century, Literary Fiction
ratings_count: 1617
places: India
series: The Raj Quartet
publisher: University of Chicago Press