I can't praise it enough - and I can't push it enough.' - Sam Jordison, The Guardian is wonderfully funny, written with devastating wit and rambunctious humanity. The Siege of Krishnapur is a superb portrayal of physical horrors and psychological fallout. One that does more as a work of fiction, or that says more about our flawed humanity. 'While I can't categorically state it's the best book ever, I find it hard to think of one that I prefer. For a novel to be witty is one thing, to tell a good story is another, to be serious is yet another, but to be all three is surely enough to make it a masterpiece.' - John Spurling, New Statesman 'The magnificient passages of action in The Siege of Krishnapur, its gallery of characters, its unashamedly detailed and fascinating dissertations on cholera, gunnery, phrenology, the prodigal inventiveness of its no doubt also well-documented scenes should satisfy the most exacting and voracious reader. But Farrell manages just this here: his imaginative insight and technical virtuosity combine to produce a novel of quite outstanding quality.' - The Times 'Suspense and subtlety, humour and horror, the near-neighbourliness of heroism and insanity: it is rare to find such divergent elements being controlled in one hand and being raced, as it were, in one yoke.
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