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Jhabvala, Ruth Prawer was born on May 7, 1927 in Cologne, Germany. Lived in India, 1951-1975. Came to the United States, 1975.
Daughter of Marcus and Eleonora (Cohn) Prawer.
(This observant and insightful novel reveals, in rich and ...)
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 titillating social and spiritual adventures. Her daughter Marietta searches for beauty in lofty ideas and in her obsession for her son Mark, who believes love is to be found in the pursuit of money and young, vacuous lovers. And Leo, their eccentric, self-styled guru, satisfies himself with power-commanding the bodies and souls of his followers. Demonstrating Jhabvala's deft twists of irony and humor, In Search of Love and Beauty brings several lifespans, full of hopes and ideals, within our grasp.
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(Exciting, dark novel of mid-century India, and a woman wh...)
Exciting, dark novel of mid-century India, and a woman who must make marital choices between lust and happiness by diasporic German intellectual Jhabvala.
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(A young man named Henry sits down with his grandmother, a...)
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 their family's lives for four generations. What unfolds is a mesmerizing family saga:Â Â the imperious great-grandmother Elsa and her husband, an Indian poet, whose marriage is as unconventional as the movement they help to found; Baby, their cheerfully pragmatic daughter, married to the aloof English diplomat Graeme; bemused and brooding Renata, Baby and Graeme's daughter, married to an idle dreamer; and finally Henry, Renata's son, who in many ways bears the legacy of all that has gone before. Their lives--and that of the movement's elusive yet ineluctable founder, known only as the Master--intertwine, diverge, and collide with each other in a masterfully orchestrated story spanning the twentieth century and several continents. By turns brilliantly satiric, insightful, and profoundly moving, Shards Of Memory is a beautifully wrought tale of love and devotion, of family and faith, and of the complex nature of memory itself--a literary tour de force from one of the most distinguished novelists of our time.
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(This brilliant collection spans two worlds - the restless...)
This brilliant collection spans two worlds - the restless, aspiring society of New York's Upper East Side and the world of India's capital city, New Delhi, where the old India symbolized by Gandhi's spinning wheel is giving way to one powered by industry and property development. A rich cast of characters inhabits these stories - Indian businessmen and holy women, students, society hostesses and ambitious young politicians; New Yorkers preoccupied with money yet also in search of meaning - anxious and often manipulative parents, alienated children, men and women struggling with their longings and failures and their complicated sex lives. Ruth Prawer Jhabvala's quiet but insistent probing goes to the very heart of her characters, showing us all their complexities and contradictions. In these absorbing stories, there is a feeling of ambivalence, a subtle sensuality and a poignant sense of time passing. Like all great storytellers, Ruth Prawer Jhabvala suggests many questions but supplies no easy answers. This is a fascinating and wonderfully readable collection which is also a literary event.
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(Paperback, 1989 A Fireside book, number line 1-10. Clear ...)
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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( A profound and powerful novel, winner of the Booker Pri...)
A profound and powerful novel, winner of the Booker Prize Set in colonial India during the 1920s, Heat and Dust tells the story of Olivia, a beautiful woman suffocated by the propriety and social constraints of her position as the wife of an important English civil servant. Longing for passion and independence, Olivia is drawn into the spell of the Nawab, a minor Indian prince deeply involved in gang raids and criminal plots. She is intrigued by the Nawab's charm and aggressive courtship, and soon begins to spend most of her days in his company. But then she becomes pregnant, and unsure of the child's paternity, she is faced with a wrenching dilemma. Her reaction to the crisis humiliates her husband and outrages the British community, breeding a scandal that lives in collective memory long after her death.
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(Six colourful, comic characters inhabit A Backward Place....)
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 hand Bal, the one Indian protagonist, holds quite Western aspirations to Hollywood glamour. 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.
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( Chosen by The New York Times Book Review as one of the ...)
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 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 contradictions and oppressions of the human heart as to those of India itself.
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(This brilliant collection spans two worlds - the restless...)
This brilliant collection spans two worlds - the restless, aspiring society of new yorks upper east side and the world of indias capital city, new delhi, where the old india symbolized by gandhis spinning wheel is giving way to one powered by industry and property development a rich cast of characters inhabits these stories - indian businessmen and holy women, students, society hostesses and ambitious young politicians; new yorkers preoccupied with money yet also in search of meaning - anxious and often manipulative parents, alienated children, men and women struggling with their longings and failures and their complicated sex lives ruth prawer jhabvalas quiet but insistent probing goes to the very heart of her characters, showing us all their complexities and contradictions in these absorbing stories, there is a feeling of ambivalence, a subtle sensuality and a poignant sense of time passing like all great storytellers, ruth prawer jhabvala suggests many questions but supplies no easy answers this is a fascinating and wonderfully readable collection which is also a literary event
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(Heat and Dust tells the following story: in 1820s, beauti...)
Heat and Dust tells the following story: in 1820s, beautiful and indulged Oliveira, wife of Douglas who is a civil servant dispatched to India by the British government, falls in love with India soon and does a thing shocking the whole Indian town: eloping with a king of an Indian native state. 50 years later, Douglas and his second wifes granddaughter Annie, out of the curiosity of Oliveiras rumors, come to India to search for her mystery stories.
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(Beautiful, spoilt, bored Olivia outrages society in the t...)
Beautiful, spoilt, bored Olivia outrages society in the tiny, suffocating Indian town where her husband is a civil servant, by eloping with an native prince. 50 years later her step-granddaughter travels there to investigate the scandal. This novel won the Booker Prize.
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(Classics, modern fiction, non-fiction and more. Written f...)
Classics, modern fiction, non-fiction and more. Written for secondary and adult students the Oxford Bookworms Library has seven reading levels from A1-C1 of the CEFR. Heat and dust - these simple, terrible words describe the Indian summer. Year after year, endlessly, it is the same. And everyone who experiences this heat and dust is changed for ever. We often say, in these modern times, that sexual relationships have changed, for better or for worse. But in this book we see that things have not changed. Whether we look back sixty years, or a hundred and sixty, we see that it is not things that change, but people. And, in the heat and dust of an Indian summer, even people are not very different after all. CEFR B2 Word count 24,125
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(Provides a vivid picture of life in an Indian city. The b...)
Provides a vivid picture of life in an Indian city. The book follows the emergence of Prem from his comparatively carefree student life living at home, to the status of teacher, husband and householder.
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(Jhabvala, winner of the Booker Prize as well as an Academ...)
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 and committment.
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(Shakuntala is a young Indian woman who returns to post-In...)
Shakuntala is a young Indian woman who returns to post-Independence Delhi from Oxford University. Sketching a gallery of fascinating and distinctive characters against a rich background, she draws the contrast between two very different families and their daily lives -- their squabbles, their politics, their love affairs, their expectations. She brings to life the nostalgic Englishman Esmond Stillwood, also the beautiful Gulab and her son Ravi, the elderly Uma, and Shakuntala's family and the neighbours Ram Nath and Lakshmi. A master of both the comic and the serious, 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 that bedevilled India at the dawn of Independence.
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( For her first novel in more than nine years, Ruth Prawe...)
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 has commented, a book filled with "invented memories." Nine vignettes are linked to portray a rich life filled with searching, from London to Delhi, from Hollywood to New York. Each chapter gathers a different cast of characters, some new and some vaguely familiar, and the linked assembly is as exciting and illuminating as an artist’s first show at a Soho gallery or a new play at the Studio Theater. After seventeen books, now in her 77th year, Ruth Prawer Jhabvala takes herself on as a subject, and the life she may have or may have wished to live. My Nine Lives is a moving and intriguing book of invention and memory.
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Jhabvala, Ruth Prawer was born on May 7, 1927 in Cologne, Germany. Lived in India, 1951-1975. Came to the United States, 1975.
Daughter of Marcus and Eleonora (Cohn) Prawer.
Master of Arts, London University, 1951. Doctor of Letters (honorary), London University, 1986. Doctor of Humane Letters (honorary), London University, 1995.
Doctor Arts (honorary), London University, 1996.
(This brilliant collection spans two worlds - the restless...)
(Heat and Dust tells the following story: in 1820s, beauti...)
(This observant and insightful novel reveals, in rich and ...)
(A young man named Henry sits down with his grandmother, a...)
(A young man named Henry sits down with his grandmother, a...)
(This brilliant collection spans two worlds - the restless...)
( A profound and powerful novel, winner of the Booker Pri...)
( Chosen by The New York Times Book Review as one of the ...)
(Jhabvala, winner of the Booker Prize as well as an Academ...)
(Jhabvala, winner of the Booker Prize as well as an Academ...)
(Beautiful, spoilt, bored Olivia outrages society in the t...)
(Exciting, dark novel of mid-century India, and a woman wh...)
( For her first novel in more than nine years, Ruth Prawe...)
(Twins Harriet and Michael - spoiled and wealthy - have es...)
( Set, of course in India, these stories are concerned no...)
(Shakuntala is a young Indian woman who returns to post-In...)
(The interior lives of three generations on a quest for lo...)
(Six colourful, comic characters inhabit A Backward Place....)
(Six colourful, comic characters inhabit A Backward Place....)
('Heat and Dust' won the 1975 Booker Prize for Fiction. Th...)
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(Provides a vivid picture of life in an Indian city. The b...)
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(Classics, modern fiction, non-fiction and more. Written f...)
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Married Cyrus S. H. Jhabvala, 1951. 3 children.