Troubles (novel)

Troubles (novel)

Troubles is a 1970 novel by the Irish 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 (the Majestic), in the midst of the political upheaval during the Irish War of Independence (1919–1921).

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 (most notably that of the British Empire), they do not form a sequence of storytelling.

Troubles was adapted into a made-for-television film in 1988, starring Ian Charleson and Ian Richardson.