At the End of the Century
The stories of Ruth Prawer Jhabvala
'Hers are stories in the fullest sense: they capture entire lives within their spans' Daily TelegraphCaught between cultures herself, nobody has written so powerfully of the relationship between and within India and the Western middle classes than Ruth Prawer Jhabvala. In this definitive collection, her ability to tenderly and humorously view the all-too-human situations faced by three (sometimes interacting) cultures - Europeans, post-independence Indians and Americans - is never more acute. With an introduction by her friend, the writer Anita Desai, At the End of the Century celebrates a writer's astonishing lifetime of gift with language,…
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Produktdetails
- ISBN: 978-1-4087-0953-5
- EAN: 9781408709535
- Produktnummer: 24665951
- Verlag: Little, Brown Book Group
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2018
- Seitenangabe: 448 S.
- Masse: H19.5 cm x B13.1 cm x D2.8 cm 344 g
- Gewicht: 344
- Sonstiges: General (US: Trade)
Über den Autor
Ruth Prawer Jhabvala published twelve novels including the Booker Prize-winning Heat and Dust and five volumes of short stories. She also wrote more than a dozen screenplays, including Howard's End and A Room with a View, for both of which she received an Academy Award. Ruth Prawer Jhabvala died in 2013.
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