চমৎকার ছিমছাম একটা উপন্যাস। রুথ প্রাওয়ার জাবভালা আজ আর বেঁচে নেই, তবে রেখে গেছেন বুকার পুরস্কার বিজয়ী এই বইটি, আর মার্চেন্ট-আইভরি টীমের সাথে বানানো ৮০ আর ৯০ দশকের বিখ্যাত কিছু চলচ্চিত্র। আরো কিছু বইও লিখেছিলেন, কিন্তু ঔপন্যাসিক হিসেবে তার কুশলী হাতের প্রধান টেস্টিমনি হয়ে থাকবে এই "হীট এন্ড ডাস্ট"...
This is a disturbing but compelling book about a pair of whimsical and unformed twins who get caught up in a cult-like movement and the personalities who engendered it. The story is told from the point of view of one of the twins, Harriet, who has never made a decision for herself, forestalling j...
"What I am interested now is myself in India" writes Jhabvala in the introduction to this delightful collection of short stories. The stories paint an interesting portrait of Indian life and values from a Western perspective. When caste and tradition provide conflict, the author often deliberatel...
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 memor...
tThis book, published in 1973, focuses on four people who meet in India. A young woman named Lee and Raymond are British, both searching for different things. Lee is looking for meaning in her life but Raymond’s quest is uncertain, more of not knowing what he wants but will recognize it when he s...
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 universal quandaries of human experience.
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,...
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.
She is proud of both her children and finds it difficult to accept that one should be doing better than the other. She thinks, or pretends to think, that it is Andrew’s fault he is not as successful as his sister, and that if only he tried harder, he would catch up with her. Debbie sees it as her...
Los Angeles had been good to her. When she was young, at the time of her marriage, she had been a successful model. Her husband, Louis Morgenstern, was a small wizened shrewd little man, thirty years older than herself but a studio head, a powerful producer, a very rich man. It had been a relief ...
And unlike many of her friends, she did have a home, or a base, even if there was no one in it except herself and Ross, whom she had inherited from her mother. Again unlike many of the people she knew, Tammy never really felt lonely or adrift: maybe because she was always either looking forward t...
There was a small central courtyard and many little rooms opening out from it. All her husband’s relatives, and her own, wanted to come and live with her; they saw that it would be very comfortable, and anyway, why pay rent elsewhere when there was that whole house? But she resisted them all. She...
‘It is your favourite pickle.’ Prem smiled rather sheepishly, and helped her to climb into the tonga. ‘Are all my things here?’ she asked. ‘They won’t fall out?’ She had a lot of baggage: there was a steel trunk with a big padlock to it, a roll of bedding, a great number of cloth bundles tied wit...