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At the End of the Century: The Stories of Ruth Prawer Jhabvala
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ISBN10: 1640093249
ISBN13: 9781640093249
Publisher: Counterpoint LLC
Published: Jun 11 2019
Pages: 448
Weight: 1.00
Height: 1.40 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.20
Language: English
ISBN13: 9781640093249
Publisher: Counterpoint LLC
Published: Jun 11 2019
Pages: 448
Weight: 1.00
Height: 1.40 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.20
Language: English
A New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice BOOKER PRIZE-WINNING AUTHOR: 17 short stories about belonging, desire, and the boundaries of love from one of the 20th century's great female writers--with a foreword by Anita Desai (Washington Post).
Jhabvala has Alice Munro's gift for making you feel you're reading a novel in miniature. --Seattle Times Nobody has written so powerfully of the relationship between and within India and the Western middle classes than Ruth Prawer Jhabvala. In this selection of stories, chosen by her surviving family, her ability to tenderly and humorously view the situations faced by three (sometimes interacting) cultures--European, post-Independence Indian, and American--is never more acute. In A Course of English Studies, a young woman arrives at Oxford from India and struggles to adapt, not only to the sad, stoic object of her infatuation, but also to a country that seems so resistant to passion and color. In the wrenching Expiation, the blind, unconditional love of a cloth shop owner for his wastrel younger brother exposes the tragic beauty and foolishness of human compassion and faith. The wry and triumphant Pagans brings us middle-aged sisters Brigitte and Frankie in Los Angeles, who discover a youthful sexuality in the company of the languid and handsome young Indian, Shoki. This collection also includes Jhabvala's last story, The Judge's Will, which appeared in The New Yorker in 2013 after her death. The profound inner experience of both men and women is at the center of Jhabvala's writing: she rivals Jane Austen with her impeccable powers of observation. With an introduction by her friend, the writer Anita Desai, At the End of the Century celebrates a writer's astonishing lifetime gift for language, and leaves us with no doubt of Ruth Prawer Jhabvala's unique place in modern literature.
Jhabvala has Alice Munro's gift for making you feel you're reading a novel in miniature. --Seattle Times Nobody has written so powerfully of the relationship between and within India and the Western middle classes than Ruth Prawer Jhabvala. In this selection of stories, chosen by her surviving family, her ability to tenderly and humorously view the situations faced by three (sometimes interacting) cultures--European, post-Independence Indian, and American--is never more acute. In A Course of English Studies, a young woman arrives at Oxford from India and struggles to adapt, not only to the sad, stoic object of her infatuation, but also to a country that seems so resistant to passion and color. In the wrenching Expiation, the blind, unconditional love of a cloth shop owner for his wastrel younger brother exposes the tragic beauty and foolishness of human compassion and faith. The wry and triumphant Pagans brings us middle-aged sisters Brigitte and Frankie in Los Angeles, who discover a youthful sexuality in the company of the languid and handsome young Indian, Shoki. This collection also includes Jhabvala's last story, The Judge's Will, which appeared in The New Yorker in 2013 after her death. The profound inner experience of both men and women is at the center of Jhabvala's writing: she rivals Jane Austen with her impeccable powers of observation. With an introduction by her friend, the writer Anita Desai, At the End of the Century celebrates a writer's astonishing lifetime gift for language, and leaves us with no doubt of Ruth Prawer Jhabvala's unique place in modern literature.
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