In the contrast the author draws between two very different families and their daily lives - their squabbles, their politics, their love affairs, their expectations - she crystallizes some of the confusions that bedeviled India at the dawn of Independence.
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A writer of genius ... a writer of world class - a master storyteller (Sunday Times)
A truly astonishing writer (Observer)
Magical! ... Jhabvala is one of those rare writers who manages to be simultaneously caustic and loving with her creations (Wall Street Journal)
For the first time in John Murray paperback - one of the Booker prize-winning author, Ruth Prawer Jhabvala's, finest Indian novels.
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