Troubles
Troubles won the 1970 Booker Prize. 1919, the Majestic Hotel in Kinalough, Ireland. Haunted war veteran Major Brendan Archer arrives to marry Angela Spencer, daughter of the house. But his fiancée is strangely altered, and her family's fortunes have suffered a spectacular decline. The hotel's hundreds of rooms are disintegrating; its few remaining guests thrive on rumours and games of whist; herds of cats have taken over the Imperial Bar; bamboo shoots threaten the foundations; and piglets frolic in the squash court. And outside the order of the British Empire totters, as the violence of 'the troubles' mounts.
- Publisher
- Weidenfeld & Nicolson
- ISBN-13
- 9780753829028
- Genre
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Awards
- The Booker PrizeWonMajor(1970)
Other awarded books from J. G. Farrell
- The Siege of Krishnapur (1973)1 win · 12 score
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