by RuthPrawerJhabvala (Author)
'To live in India and be at peace, one must to a very considerable extent become Indian, and adopt Indian attitudes, habits, beliefs!' 'But how is this possible?' Ruth Prawer Jhabvala asks in a brilliant and candid introduction. 'Should one want to try to become something other than what one is?' Both the European and the Indian characters search for answers to these questions in fifteen acclaimed stories from the author's four previous collections.
Format: Paperback
Pages: 288
Edition: New
Publisher: John Murray
Published: 13 Oct 2003
ISBN 10: 0719561787
ISBN 13: 9780719561788
Book Overview: Ruth Prawer Jhabvala is well-known for her scriptwriting credits, which include A Room With a View and Howards End , both of which won Academy Awards. She won the Booker Prize for Heat and Dust , in 1975, the Neil Gunn International Fellowship in 1978, the MacArthur Foundation Award in 1984 and was made a CBE in the 1998 New Year's Honours List. Her other books include Like Birds, Like Fishes , A Stronger Climate , How I Became a Holy Mother , An Experience of India , To Whom She Will , The Nature of Passion , Esmond in India , The Householder and Get Ready for Battle .