Win A Copy of "The Siege of Krishnapur"!

Win a copy of what? I, at least, had never heard of The Siege of Krishnapur until I bought a wonderful pack containing the six Booker prize-winning novels that had been nominated for the Best of the Bookers award. That pack also contains Salman Rushdie's Midnight's Children, the much fêted magic-realist post-Indian-partition novel, which is soon to be made into a movie.


The Siege of Krishnapur tells the story of the Indian Mutiny of the late 1850s against British colonial rule through the eyes of the British people stationed there. Some of the other books I've read in the pack have been good, but a little ... highbrow ... at times, where I wondered whether I was reading it for fun, or just to say I'm reading a Booker prize novel, Isn't this grand. That's not the case with this one. As the quote on the blurb says, "For a novel to be witty is one thing, to tell a good story is another, to be serious is yet another, but to be all three is surely enough to make it a masterpiece." Review soon.

To enter:

• Send an email to: thebookswede@googlemail.com, containing the subject (aka header) "SIEGE"

• No multiple entries -- or I will personally selotape bacon to you :) Whether you like it (and I hope you don't) or not...
  

• Open Anywhere (on Earth...)

• Please also include any Message Boards you frequent, if any

• Make sure your email contains your full mailing address (snail mail!). Please.
  

• Contest closes on the 31st March -- if you enter four months late, as some have, I won't send your entries back in time! ;)