BHOWANI JUNCTION by John Masters, 1954 First Edition, Blue Cloth, Viking Press

Description: Description - BHOWANI JUNCTION by John Masters, copyright 1954 first edition, The Viking Press, New York, 5-1/2 x 8-1/4 inches, 394 pages, no dust jacket. Light blue clothbound hardcover with black stamping on spine and illustrated front cover. Plain edges. No illustrations. Condition - Flat, tight, with solid hinges. May not have been read - spine has not been cracked open, such that it won't lay flat (see photo). Boards are clean but the spine is lightly sunned. Not bumped. Barely detectable wear at corners and top/bottom of spine. Edges not dusty or soiled. Pastedowns are clean but show a little toning along hinge. The first several pages beginning at the front free endpaper have a soft crease or fold mark at the upper right, approximately three inches long and becoming less noticeable as you progress through those few pages. No other issues inside the book - no pencil or ink, no rips, no stains, no dogears. Pages show just barely noticeable tanning, with bright text. Backstory - First published in 1954 in the wake of the partition of India, John Masters' great novel Bhowani Junction has increased in stature over the years. Standing between E.M. Forster's A Passage to India and the acclaimed works of later writers such as Paul Scott and Salman Rushdie, Bhowani Junction is both a richly intriguing novel and a superb evocation of the tensions and conflicts at the birth of modern India. It is one of John Masters' seven novels which followed several generations of the Savage family serving in the British Army in India. Bhowani Junction is set in the wake of the partition of India, as the British prepare to withdraw from the newly independent country. Evoking the tensions and conflicts that accompanied the birth of modern India, the characters struggle to find their place in the new India that is emerging. In the last hectic days of the British Raj, Victoria has to choose between marrying a British Army officer or a Sikh, Ranjit, as she struggles to find her place in the new, independent India. It is Masters' most famous novel, and was made into a film in 1956, starring Ava Gardener and Stewart Granger. Masters evokes the tensions and conflicts that accompanied the birth of modern India in his classic novel Bhowani Junction. Set in the late 1940's in the wake of partition it has become one of the great novels of India, alongside E.M. Forster's A Passage to India and the work of Paul Scott and Salman Rushdie. Email any questions not answered by the photos and description before bidding. Thanks.

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