Out of India: Selected Stories - Softcover

Jhabvala, Ruth Prawer

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1582430527 ISBN 13: 9781582430522

Publisher: Counterpoint LLC, 1999

Synopsis

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. Bearing Jhabvala’s hallmark of balance, subtlety, wry humor, and beauty, these stories present characters that prove to be as vulnerable to the contradictions and oppressions of the human heart as to those of India itself.

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Review:

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)

From the Publisher:

Ruth Prawer Jhabvala is a Booker and an Oscar winning author.

About this edition

• Publisher: Counterpoint LLC
• Publication date: 1999
• ISBN 10: 1582430527
• ISBN 13: 9781582430522
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 292