NYRB Classics

9781590170182

STARRED REVIEW

Classics, Literary Fiction

Troubles

By J.G. Farrell

The first in J.G. Farrell’s Empire Trilogy, Troubles is a masterful, bleakly hilarious evisceration of British colonialism.

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