Esmond in India - Softcover

Prawer Jhabvala, Ruth

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0719561949 ISBN 13: 9780719561948

Publisher: John Murray, 2004

Synopsis

Shakuntala is a young Indian woman who returns to post-Independence Delhi from Oxford University. Sketching a gallery of fascinating and distinctive characters against a rich background, she draws the contrast between two very different families and their daily lives - their squabbles, their politics, their love affairs, their expectations. She brings to life the nostalgic Englishman Esmond Stillwood, also the beautiful Gulab and her son Ravi, the elderly Uma, and Shakuntala's family and the neighbours Ram Nath and Lakshmi.

A master of both the comic and the serious, Ruth Prawer Jhabvala has constructed a richly ripe Indian comedy of manners. She strips bare that certain section of affluent Indian society which is particularly vulnerable to the seductions of an imperial presence, and brilliantly and wittily crystallizes some of the confusions that bedevilled India at the dawn of Independence.

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Review:

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)

Book Description:

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

About this edition

• Publisher: John Murray
• Publication date: 2004
• ISBN 10: 0719561949
• ISBN 13: 9780719561948
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 208