Ruth Prawer Jhabvala

At the End of the Century (eBook, ePUB)

The stories of Ruth Prawer Jhabvala

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

'A magnificent selection of the Booker winner's short stories' Sunday Times

With an introduction by Anita Desai.

Over the course of her glittering literary career, Ruth Prawer Jhabvala wrote some of the most wonderful novels of the twentieth century and screenplays to some of the most beloved films - but she was also a master of the short story form. This stunning new collection brings together the jewels in the crown of her writing: it is a showcase of astonishing storytelling power.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Little, Brown Book Group
• Erscheinungstermin: 9. November 2017
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781408709542
• Artikelnr.: 49855010

Autorenporträt

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.

Inhaltsangabe

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