RUTH PRAWER JHABVALA, born in 1927, wrote several novels and short stories, and in collaboration with James Ivory and Ismail Merchant, she won two Oscars for Best Adapted Screenplay (for Howards End and A Room with a View ). She won the Booker Prize in 1975 for Heat and Dust. She died in 2013. ANITA DESAI was born in 1937 in Mussoorie, India. Her novels include Fire on the Mountain-which won the Winifred Holtby Memorial Prize-Clear Light of Day, In Custody, and Fasting, Feasting, each of which was short-listed for the Booker Prize. Her latest novel is The Artist of Disappearance.
Introduction by Anita Desai
A Loss of Faith
The Widow
A Spiritual Call
Miss Sahib
A Course of English Studies
An Experience of India
Two More under the Indian Sun
Desecration
Expiation
Great Expectations
Two Muses
Menage
A Choice of Heritage
A Lovesong for India
Pagans
At the End of the Century
The Judge's Will
