Рут Правер Джабвала — библиография

Действие происходит в Индии, причем попеременно — то совсем недавно, то в 1923 году. Героиня и рассказчица, наша современница, переселившись в Индию, обретается как бы в двух измерениях: живет собственной нынешней жизнью и, вместе с тем, — молодостью первой жены своего деда, ушедшей от него к обедневшему индийскому принцу. И главные, и второстепенные герои-англичане испытывают на себе загадочные чары Индии.

Hailed as one of the best books of 1998 by the Los Angeles Times, this group of twelve short stories was written over the past twenty years. From the steamy streets of New Delhi to New York's tony Upper East Side, Jhabvala's characters grapple with the universal quandaries of the human experience-jealousy, passion, temptation, and deception-truths of life and love that follow no matter where we wander.

This observant and insightful novel reveals, in rich and poignant detail, the interior lives of three generations of people in their quest for love and beauty Louise, not content with her husband's gentle affection, strives to reclaim her youth in titillating social and spiritual adventures. Her daughter Marietta searches for beauty in lofty ideas and in her obsession for her son Mark, who believes love is to be found in the pursuit of money and young, vacuous lovers. And Leo, their eccentric, self-styled guru, satisfies himself with power-commanding the bodies and souls of his followers.Demonstrating Jhabvala's deft twists of irony and…

Three Continents is a tale of the clash between the easternized West and the westernized East. Twins Harriet and Michael-spoiled, quixotic, and extremely wealthy-have eschewed the vapid world of cocktail parties and adulteries that seems to be their inheritance. In constantly searching to complete themselves, they become the perfect fodder for the charismatic Rawul of Dhoka and his sinister Sixth World Movement.

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.

The sole definitive collection of Jhabvala's work, with an introduction by the author's friend, writer Anita Desai, The only person to have won both a Booker Prize and an Academy Award, Jhabvala is the author of beloved works including Out of India and Heat and Dust , as well as many short stories For readers who love Penelope Lively and Clarice Lispector, as well as Alice Munro or Penelope Fitzgerald

For her first novel in more than nine years, Ruth Prawer Jhabvala has written a most unusual book in a career of distinctive and unique accomplishments. My Nine Lives is «Chapters of a Possible Past,» as the subtitle declares. It is, as the author has commented, a book filled with «invented memories.» Nine vignettes are linked to portray a rich life filled with searching, from London to Delhi, from Hollywood to New York. Each chapter gathers a different cast of characters, some new and some vaguely familiar, and the linked assembly is as exciting and illuminating as an artist’s first show at a Soho gallery or a new play at the Studio…

Действие происходит в Индии, причем попеременно - то совсем недавно, то в 1923 году. Героиня и рассказчица, наша современница, переселившись в Индию, обретается как бы в двух измерениях: живет собственной нынешней жизнью и, вместе с тем, - молодостью первой жены своего деда, ушедшей от него к обедневшему индийскому принцу. И главные, и второстепенные герои-англичане испытывают на себе загадочные чары Индии.