Troubles

Troubles

Troubles is a 1970 novel by the English author J.G. Farrell. It won the Lost Man Booker Prize and the Geoffrey Faber Memorial Prize. Troubles concerns the dilapidation of a once grand Irish hotel , in the midst of the political upheaval during the Irish War of Independence . The novel is the first installment in Farrell's acclaimed 'Empire Trilogy', preceding The Siege of Krishnapur and The Singapore Grip. Although there are similar themes within the three novels , they do not form a sequence of storytelling. Troubles was adapted into a made-for-television film in 1988, starring Ian Charleson...
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Author:James Gordon Farrell
Genre:Novel, Fiction
Year published:1970
Number of editions:4

Author of Troubles

James Gordon Farrell
James Gordon Farrell
January 25, 1935 - August 11, 1979
Birthplace:Liverpool

James Gordon Farrell , known as J. G. Farrell, was a Liverpool-born novelist of Irish descent. Farrell gained prominence for his historical fiction, most notably his Empire Trilogy , dealing with the political and human consequences of British colonial rule. However, his career was cut tragically...
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Literary Genres

Novel
Novel

A novel is a book of long narrative in literary prose. The genre has historical roots both in the fields of the medieval and early modern romance and...
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Fiction
Fiction

Fiction is the form of any narrative or informative work that deals, in part or in whole, with information or events that are not factual, but...
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    Which year was the book "Troubles" first made available to the public?
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    The work debuted in 1970.

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