The Householder - Softcover

Prawer Jhabvala, Ruth

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0719561930 ISBN 13: 9780719561931

Publisher: John Murray, 2004

Synopsis

Prem is a recently married teacher who is neither very good at teaching nor at being married. He is promised an ally against his wife Indu, whom he regards with varying degrees of irritation, when his mother comes to visit. He soon finds, though, that maternal interference is far from helpful, and he receives comfort from an entirely unexpected quarter - his wife - as he discovers through her the joys of being a 'settled husband and householder'.

From every page rise the heat, the smells, the flashing iridescent colours and the ceaseless rhythms of Indian life. And such is the strength of Ruth Prawer Jhabvala's humourous and perceptive pen that this appealing tale of a young man trying to come to terms with marriage and maturity becomes more than a highly comic vignette of a particular society - it is also a reflection of a universal experience.

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Review:

A writer of genius ... a writer of world class - a master storyteller (Sunday Times)

Her tussle with India is one of the richest treats of contemporary literature (Guardian)

Book Description:

For the first time in John Murray paperback - one of the Booker prize-winning author, Ruth Prawer Jhabvala's, wonderfully evocative Indian novels.

About this edition

• Publisher: John Murray
• Publication date: 2004
• ISBN 10: 0719561930
• ISBN 13: 9780719561931
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 138