Captivating stories that launched Ruth Prawer Jhabvala’s career spanning twenty books and multiple awards, including the Booker Prize and a MacArthur FellowshipThis volume of stories, selected by Ruth
The Booker Prize-winning novel—intertwining the narratives of two women, past and present, and their relationships to India—from the novelist, short story writer, and two-time Academy Award-winning sc
A young man named Henry sits down with his grandmother, a genial lady still called Baby by everyone, in her Manhattan townhouse where he has lived all his life, to record the history of a spiritual mo
Like Jhumpa Lahriri, Monica Ali and Arundhati Roy, Ruth Prawer Jhabvala has long captured the Western-Indian experience. In this expansive story collection, Jhabvala continues her lifelong meditation
Chosen by The New York Times Book Review as one of the best books of 1986, this volume of stories, selected by the author from her own early work, represents the essence of her Indian experience. Bear
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.
Travelers examines the unlikely convergence of four wanderers: Asha, an imperious Indian widow; Raymond, a curious Englishman; Gopi, an impressionable young student; and Lee, an American in search of
Angel is dark and plain, introverted and submissive, a spontaneous composer of childish verses, wholly consumed by the wild, seductive spell of her cousin Lara - a beautiful, irresponsible creature wh
In this book, Ruth Prawer Jhabvala explores nine possible lives. While each is located in deeply familiar territory, whether England, India, or America, and often overlaid with that essential Central
Multi-layered, subtle, insightful short stories from the inimitable Booker-prize winning author, Ruth Prawer JhabvalaCaught between cultures herself, nobody has written so powerfully of the relationsh
In 1923 the beautiful, spoiled, and bored Olivia, married to Douglas and his career in the Indian Civil Service, outrages the English and Indian communities by eloping with an Indian prince. Fifty yea
In this, her first novel in more than nine years, in a career studded with distinctive and unique accomplishments, award-winning Ruth Prawer Jhabvala has written her most unusual book. My Nine Lives,