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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 to be desired. Etta, an aristocratic, faded beauty maintains her Parisian chic while Clarissa talks enthusiastically about the simple life but stops short of ever roughing it herself. On the other ha...

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 impassioned dialogue and subtle narrative, Jhabvala examines the psychological and cultural forces that wend their paths into inextricable knots of love and conflict.

A New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice "To read Ruth Prawer Jhabvala is to regard the human heart through a magnifying glass." -Claire Luchette, O, The Oprah MagazineNobody has written so powerfully of the relationship between and within India and the Western middle classes than Ruth Prawer Jhabvala. In this selection of stories, chosen by her surviving family, her ability to tenderly and humorously view the situations faced by three (so...

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A New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice Multilayered, subtle, insightful short stories from the inimitable Booker Prize-winning author, with an introduction by Anita Desai Nobody has written so powerfully of the relationship between and within India and the Western middle classes than Ruth Prawer Jhabvala. In this selection of stories, chosen by her surviving family, her ability to tenderly and humorously view the situations faced by t...

From Simon & Schuster, Esmond in India is Ruth Prawer Jhabvala's novel following a young Indian woman who returns to post-Independence Delhi from Oxford University.Ruth Prawer Jhabvala has constructed a richly ripe Indian comedy of manners. She strips bare that certain section of affluent Indian society which is particularly vulnerable to the seductions of an imperial presence, and brilliantly and wittily crystallizes some of the confusions th...

From Simon & Schuster, A Backward Place is Ruth Prawer Jhabvala's unforgettable work of fiction.A Backward Place humorously explores contradictions in attitudes and lifestyles and the interplay between culture and individuality. But it is also a Dickensian drama, charting the highs and lows of everyday life against the enchanting backdrop of a bustling Indian city.

Zum Entsetzen ihrer Schwester Helen (Helena Bonham Carter) verliebt sich Margaret Schlegel (Emma Thompson) in den Millionär und Witwer Henry Wilcox (Anthony Hopkins). Ihr Haß steigt, als sie herausfindet, daß Wilcox einst ein Verhältnis mit der Frau ihres Freundes Leonard (Samuel West) hatte. In ihrem Zorn vermutet Helen ein doppeltes Spiel, das der Millionär mit ihrem Freund treibt. Schicksal, Haß und Rache fordern ihren Tribut. Beim Wiederse...

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This novel won the Booker Prize in 1975 A beloved author and American-British dual citizen, Ruth Prawer Jhabvala also won two Academy Awards for adaptations of genteel, class-conscious E. M. Forster novels In Jhabvala's obituary, The New York Times wrote that "Mrs. Jhabvala's writing was essential. She contributed sophisticated dialogue and a sharp eye for the nuances of class and ethnicity

Captivating stories that launched Ruth Prawer Jhabvala's career spanning twenty books and multiple awards, including the Booker Prize and a MacArthur Fellowship This volume of stories, selected by Ruth Prawer Jhabvala from her own early work, represents the essence of her Indian experience. Bearing Jhabvala's hallmark of balance, subtlety, wry humor, and beauty, these stories present characters that prove to be as vulnerable to the contradicti...

Angel is dark and plain, introverted and submissive, a spontaneous composer of childish verses, wholly consumed by the wild, seductive spell of her cousin Lara - a beautiful, irresponsible creature who expresses herself in free-form dance.What begins as a tender and intimate attachment between two young girls deepens in adulthood into something complex and perilous, as Lara's life spins in increasingly erratic circles while Angel's passionate ...

Prem is a recently married teacher who is neither very good at teaching nor at being married. He is promised an ally against his wife Indu, whom he regards with varying degrees of irritation, when his mother comes to visit. He soon finds, though, that maternal interference is far from helpful, and he receives comfort from an entirely unexpected quarter - his wife - as he discovers through her the joys of being a 'settled husband and householde...

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 and Dust and the screenplays for The Remains of the Day and A Room with a View, continues her lifelong meditation on East and West. Set in India, England, and New York City, A Lovesong for India reveals what uni...

In nine vignettes of autobiographical fiction--linked to portray a rich life, filled with searching, from London to Delhi, from Hollywood to New York--Jhabvala creates "invented memories" that form "chapters of a possible past.

Like Jhumpa Lahriri, Monica Ali and Arundhati Roy, Ruth Prawer Jhabvala has long captured the Western-Indian experience. In this expansive story collection, Jhabvala continues her lifelong meditation on East and West. Set in India, England, and New York City, A Lovesong for India reveals what unites us across oceans, cultures, and lifetimes. Remarkable and unwavering, this collection is the hallmark of Jhabvala's celebrated career and a test...

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A masterclass in storytelling and writing beautiful, luminous prose' Literary ReviewAn Indian poetess exerts an artistic and sexual dominion over her English translator, a middle-aged man is found dead in mysterious circumstances in a shabby Indian guesthouse, leaving an assortment of women to reassemble the pieces of his secret life, a young English girl with a beautiful voice infiltrates Fifth Avenue theatrical royalty, and a beautiful Holly...

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