Out of India: Selected Stories - Hardcover
'To live in India and be at peace, one must to a very considerable extent become Indian, and adopt Indian attitudes, habits, beliefs...' 'But how is this possible?' Ruth Prawer Jhabvala asks in a brilliant and candid introduction. 'Should one want to try to become something other than what one is?' Both the European and the Indian characters search for answers to these questions in fifteen acclaimed stories from the author's four previous collections.
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A writer of genius ... a writer of world class - a master storyteller (Sunday Times)
An allusiveness, a susceptibility to mood, a tenderness to which Chekhov was the exemplar (V. S. Pritchett)
Marvellous ... each story perfectly constructed and complete (Jane Gardam)
Her tussle with India is one of the richest treats of contemporary literature (Guardian)
Brutally honest, these stories cut straight to the heart of the matter (The Good Book Guide)
Seductive ... intelligent and frank ... Jhabvala's troubled fragments provide consolation, not in art, but in the understanding that differences between continents and cultures cannot deny the common core of human yearnings (Times Literary Supplement)
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An allusiveness, a susceptibility to mood, a tenderness to which Chekhov was the exemplar (V. S. Pritchett)
Marvellous ... each story perfectly constructed and complete (Jane Gardam)
Her tussle with India is one of the richest treats of contemporary literature (Guardian)
Brutally honest, these stories cut straight to the heart of the matter (The Good Book Guide)
Seductive ... intelligent and frank ... Jhabvala's troubled fragments provide consolation, not in art, but in the understanding that differences between continents and cultures cannot deny the common core of human yearnings (Times Literary Supplement)
Ruth Prawer Jhabvala is a Booker and an Oscar winning author.
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- PublisherJohn Murray
- Publication date1987
- ISBN 10 0719543754
- ISBN 13 9780719543753
- BindingHardcover
- Number of pages288
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