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Avvaru Pavani
The book gives a clear picture of Jhabvala’s novels. One can find the conflicts that arises between Indians and Westerners based upon the complexities of culture, history, and psychology. It…
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Ruth Prawer Jhabvala
Multi-layered, subtle, insightful short stories from the inimitable Booker-prize winning author, Ruth Prawer Jhabvala
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Originally published in Great Britain in 2017 by Little, Brown.
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Laurie Sucher
The interior lives of three generations on a quest for love and beauty are explored. Louise strives to reclaim her youth, her daughter Marietta searches for beauty in lofty ideas…
Twins Harriet and Michael - spoiled and wealthy - have eschewed the vapid world of cocktail parties and adulteries that seems to be their inheritance. In searching to complete themselves…
Four wanderers converge: Asha, an imperious Indian widow, Raymond, a curious Englishman, Lee, an American looking for her spiritual core, and Gopi, an impressionable young student. Jhabvala examines the psychological…
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…
In this expansive story collection, acclaimed writer Ruth Prawer Jhabvala continues her lifelong meditation on East and West. Set in India, England, and New York City, A Lovesong for India…
Set in the 1920s amid the suffocating heat and exotic landscapes of India, this novel juxtaposes one woman’s search for passion and independence against the social constraints of proper British…
Brilliant short stories ranging from Manhattan to New Delhi
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 and commitment.
* A profound and powerful novel, winner of the Booker Prize in 1975
Chosen by The New York Times Book Review as one of the best books of 1986, this volume of stories, selected by the author from her own early work, represents…
Prem, a young teacher in New Dehli has just become a householder and is finding his responsibilities perplexing.
Another reissue from the booker-prize winning author. This Indian Vanity Fari brings astonishingly to life, the small tragedies and triumphs of daily life.
For the first time in John Murray paperback – one of the Booker prize-winning author, Ruth Prawer Jhabvala’s, finest Indian novels.
Dr Ramlal Agarwal
Outsiders and Insiders is a collection of essays and reviews in exceptionally simple and lucid style about post-modern Indian English literature. It is a mine of critical insights into the…
Some yearly issues published as: The PEN/O. Henry prize stories.
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