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My Nine Lives: Indian Edition

My Nine Lives: Indian Edition

by RuthPrawerJhabvala (Author)

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    Paperback 2004

    $43.47
Synopsis

Ruth Prawer Jhabvala is a novelist of unequalled insight, grace and emotional power. My Nine Lives represents a new and fascinating strand in her outstanding canon of work: as she puts it, the 'potentially autobiographical'. Behind her poised, eloquent prose Ruth Prawer Jhabvala deftly tussles with the existential question of how destiny is shaped.



In each chapter of My Nine Lives the narrator faces a startlingly different fate. One story takes place in India, the next in New York; in one the narrator is grown married woman, in another a dependent daughter, in one a scholar, in another an uneducated ingenue. But a complex thread interlinks the seemingly disparate stories: the 'I' of each chapter has Ruth Prawer Jhabvala's Jewish, Central European background. Here are nine different answers to the central question: what would happen if I were granted an alternative life?

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Format: Paperback
 Pages: 288
 Publisher: John Murray
Published: 05 Jul 2004
ISBN 10: 0719567602
ISBN 13: 9780719567605

Media Reviews
It is this quality of elegant, unfussy writing that makes the book so enjoyable to read. * Student Direct *
'By the end, while she may not fully have revealed herself, she has shown the grand sweep of life.' - Elena Seymenliyska. * The Daily Telegraph *
Jhabvala's writing has a feather-like lightness that the stories are easy to read but are secretly powerful tales. * Scan *
'Imagining what life might have been ...this is fiction that comes as close to autobiography as the author dares.' - Emma Hagestadt. * the Independent *
The most prominent theme is a string of inadvisable affairs with irascible, unreliable older men ...perhaps it'll be 10th time lucky? * The Guardian *
I couldn't put it down when I got started. It's well worth the read and is incredibly well-written. * Scan *
Author Bio
Ruth Prawer Jhabvala was born in Germany of Polish parents and came to England in 1939 at the age of twelve. She graduated from Queen Mary College, London University, and married an architect. They lived in Delhi from 1951 to 1975. Since then they have divided their time between Delhi, New York and London.