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Book Review of The Siege of Krishnapur

The Siege of Krishnapur
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An interesting, fictional account of the Sepoy Mutiny in India. It also parodies the class distinctions of the British and many of their beliefs. I especially enjoyed the arguments of two doctors about how cholera is transmitted.

This book received the Brooker Prize, a prestigious literary award conferred each year for the best single work of sustained fiction written in the English language, which was published in the United Kingdom and/or Ireland.