In The Day of the Scorpion , Scott draws us deeper in to his epic of India at the close of World War II.
Brutal repression and imprisonment of India\'s leaders c.
As the scorpian, 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.
With force and subtlety, he recreates both private ambition and perversity, and the politics of an entire subcontinent at a turning point in history.
In The Day of the Scorpion , Scott draws us deeper in to his epic of India at the close of World War II