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. A rich cast of characters inhabit these stories.
Ruth Prawer Jhabvala Orden de los libros
7 de mayo de 1927 – 3 de abril de 2013
Ruth Prawer Jhabvala fue una aclamada autora, célebre por sus exploraciones de los encuentros entre Oriente y Occidente. Su obra literaria se caracteriza por una profunda perspicacia en las diferencias culturales y la psicología de personajes que navegan entre mundos. A través de su ficción, capturó las complejidades de las relaciones humanas y los paisajes cambiantes de las normas sociales. Su estilo distintivo y su profundidad temática le han asegurado un lugar importante en la literatura.
- 2013
- 2011
A Lovesong for India
- 276 páginas
- 10 horas de lectura
* Multi-layered, subtle, wonderful new short stories from the inimitable Booker-prize winning author, Ruth Prawer Jhabvala
- 2004
My Nine Lives
- 277 páginas
- 10 horas de lectura
Booker Prize winner Ruth Prawer Jhabvala's, outstanding new novel explores a woman's nine possible destinies and carries subtle, autobiographical resonances.
- 1990
Belletristik : Deutschland/Indien/Delhi ; Roman.
- 1989
Out of India
- 288 páginas
- 11 horas de lectura
This collection contains 15 of Ruth Prawer Jhabvala's favourite stories which she has selected from her four previous collections. They are all set in India, where the author has lived for most of her adult life.
- 1989
Eine Witwe mit Geld
- 252 páginas
- 9 horas de lectura
Belletristik : Deutschland/Indien/Delhi ; Frau.
- 1987
Three Continents
- 384 páginas
- 14 horas de lectura
The offspring of a prominent Yankee family, young twins Harriet and Michael Wishwell are swept up by an enthralling trio of foreigners, following them first to London and then to India where they surrender themselves and their fortune to a cult. From the Academy Award-winning screenwriter of A Room with a View.
- 1981
Get Ready for Battle
- 160 páginas
- 6 horas de lectura
A portrait of middle-class family life in contemporary Delhi. Through the conflicting ambitions, business intrigues and the personal and emotional entanglements, the book mocks the self-seeking nature of a group of people who are ready for battle - with each other and themselves.
