Ruth Prawer Jhabvala

• 1975
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In 1923 the beautiful, spoiled, and bored Olivia, married to Douglas and his career in the Indian Civil Service, outrages the English and Indian communities by eloping with an Indian prince. Fifty years later, Douglas’s granddaughter, armed with...

• Jan-1977
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In Travelers, Jhabvala examines the unlikely convergence of four wanderers: Asha, an imperious Indian widow, Raymond, a curious Englishman, Lee, an American looking for her spiritual core, and Gopi, an impressionable young student. With a mixture of ...

• Jul-1980
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In the contrast the author draws between two very different families and their daily lives - their squabbles, their politics, their love affairs, their expectations - she crystallizes some of the confusions that bedeviled India at the dawn of Indepen...

• Jul-1980
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"All the figures in this book...are irresistible comic manifestations." -- The New Yorker This witty and perceptive novel is about Prem, a young teacher in New Delhi who has just become a householder and is finding his responsibilities perplexing....

• Dec-1980
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Six colourful, comic characters inhabit A Backward Place. All but one are Westerners who have come to Delhi to experience an alternative way of life. But, far from being hippies, their ability to adapt to this exotic culture often leaves something...

• Jun-1983
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This observant and insightful novel reveals, in rich and poignant detail, the interior lives of three generations of people in their quest for love and beauty Louise, not content with her husband's gentle affection, strives to reclaim her youth in ti...

• Aug-1987
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Three Continents is a tale of the clash between the easternized West and the westernized East. Twins Harriet and Michael�"spoiled, quixotic, and extremely wealthy�"have eschewed the vapid world of cocktail parties and adulteries that seems to be th...

• Apr-1989
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This a hilarious memoir of Clancy Sigal’s escapades as a young Hollywood agent on the Sunset Strip, peddling writers and actors in a blacklist-crazed “golden age” movie industry of the 1950s. Atom bomb tests light up the night sky, and everyon...

• Jan-1990
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• Feb-1993
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Jhabvala, winner of the Booker Prize as well as an Academy Award for screenwriting, has written a haunting tale of the complex and perilous relations between two young cousins, Angel and Lara.  A masterful novel which explores the dangers of love a...

• Aug-1995
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A young man named Henry sits down with his grandmother, a genial lady still called Baby by everyone, in her Manhattan townhouse where he has lived all his life, to record the history of a spiritual movement that has woven itself into the fabric of th...

• Jan-2000
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Written over 20 years, these stories are domestic tapestries of the emotional lives and psychologies of lovers, quarrelling married couples, weary elders, and their restless adult children. Whether in New Delhi or Manhattan, the characters face the u...

• Jun-2005
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For her first novel in more than nine years, Ruth Prawer Jhabvala has written a most unusual book in a career of distinctive and unique accomplishments. My Nine Lives is "Chapters of a Possible Past," as the subtitle declares. It is, as the author ha...

• Feb-2009
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Set, of course in India, these stories are concerned not so much with Europeans in India as with Indians themselves. They are about universal human passions -- yet interwoven with India itself. The heat, the vastness, the loneliness of India are al...

• Jan-2012
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From the Booker Prize�"winning novelist and screenwriter of Howard’s End: “Cinematic” and “exquisite” stories of longing, loss, and redemption (Publishers Weekly). In this expansive story collection, Ruth Prawer Jhabvala, author of Heat an...

• Nov-2017
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A New York Times Book Review Editors’ Choice BOOKER PRIZE-WINNING AUTHOR: 17 short stories “about belonging, desire, and the boundaries of love” from “one of the 20th century’s great female writers” -- with a foreword by Anita Desai (Wash...

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Paperback, 1989 A Fireside book, number line 1-10. Clear plastic covering, Ex lib w/ usual stamps, pocket and remainder mark. Spine is tight , text is unmarked, covers look new. 1st ed., 1st printing, author's 1st book. Ruth Prawer Jhabvala....

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1962. Paperback. Book is in Very Good condition. Clean and sound covers, perfect binding. Crisp pages with no notation or highlights. Fast Amazon shipping plus a hassle free return policy; satisfaction guaranteed!...