Download or read book Heat and Dust written by Ruth Prawer Jhabvala and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 1987 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner of the Booker Prize as best novel of the year in 1983, Heat and Dust was also made into a major motion picture starring Julie Christie, now regarded by many as a classic.
Download or read book Heat And Dust written by Ruth Prawer Jhabvala and published by Hachette UK. This book was released on 2011-10-06 with total page 115 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The beautiful, spoiled and bored Olivia, married to a civil servant, outrages society in the tiny, suffocating town of Satipur by eloping with an Indian prince. Fifty years later, her step-granddaughter goes back to the heat, the dust and the squalor of the bazaars to solve the enigma of Olivia's scandal. 'A superb book. A complex story line, handled with dazzling assurance . . . moving and profound. Ruth Prawer Jhabvala has not only written a love story, she has also exposed the soul and nerve ends of a fascinating and compelling country. This is a book of cool, controlled brilliance. It is a jewel to be treasured' THE TIMES
Download or read book The Householder A Novel written by Ruth Prawer Jhabvala and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2001-12-17 with total page 194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "All the figures in this book...are irresistible comic manifestations."—The New Yorker This witty and perceptive novel is about Prem, a young teacher in New Delhi who has just become a householder and is finding his responsibilities perplexing.
Download or read book The Nature of Passion written by Ruth Prawer Jhabvala and published by . This book was released on 1990 with total page 191 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Ruth Prawer Jhabvala s Heat and Dust written by I. H-Shihan and published by Atlantic Publishers & Dist. This book was released on 2006 with total page 172 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ruth Prawer Jhabvala, A Twentieth Century Expatriate Writer Of Polish-Jewish Origins And British Upbringing, Who Chose To Make India Her Home Since 1951 For More Than Two Decades, Has Made Her Mark As Writer Of Novel, Story, Screenplay, Non-Fiction, Etc, Which Have Brought Her Worldwide Recognition And Prestigious Awards And Fellowships Both In India And Abroad. Her Work Offers A Site For The Intersection Of Cultures, Especially Those Of India And Europe/America.Heat And Dust (1975), Jhabvala S Booker Winning And Most Well-Known Novel, Which Ensured Her Celebrity Status In The Literary World, Is A Delightful Interrogation Of The Imperial And Post-Imperial Discourses Vis-À-Vis India And England, As Presented Through The Parallel Lives Of Two English Women In India, Placed In Two Distinct Historical Contexts Across Half-A-Century, In Which The Young Narrator Is Set To Restore The Lost Story Of Her Predecessor From The Heat And Dust Of Passion And Oblivion.The Atlantic Critical Study Of Heat And Dust, Which Is Primarily Meant For The Students Of English Literature Of Indian Universities, Is A Comprehensive, Self-Sufficient, And An In-Depth Study Of The Text. The Present Book Provides A Thorough And Illuminating Study Of The Text And Examines It From Such Aspects As Race Relations, Man-Woman Relations, Themes, Form, Structure, And Technique. In Addition, It Provides Useful Background Materials Related To Jhabvala S Life, Works, Her Vision Of India, And A Detailed Critical Summary Of The Entire Text, Along With A Select Bibliography And Sample Questions. The Book Will Be Immensely Useful For Students, Scholars And Teachers In The Area.
Download or read book Poet and Dancer written by Ruth Prawer Jhabvala and published by Hachette UK. This book was released on 2019-05-02 with total page 117 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Angel is dark and plain, introverted and submissive, a spontaneous composer of childish verses, wholly consumed by the wild, seductive spell of her cousin Lara - a beautiful, irresponsible creature who expresses herself in free-form dance. What begins as a tender and intimate attachment between two young girls deepens in adulthood into something complex and perilous, as Lara's life spins in increasingly erratic circles while Angel's passionate devotion to her remains undiminished. It is a feverish and impenetrable relationship, of reckless master and willing slave, one forged to shield both Angel and Lara from the harshness of their surroundings, as well as from the far greater terrors of the self. It is a relationship that will end in terror for the young women, and for their families. Set against the vivid, dream-like landscape of of Manhattan in the recent past, Poet and Dancer is an altogether unforgettable novel, written with the subtlety, wry humour and beauty that are the hallmarks of one of the twentieth century's most brilliant novelists and storytellers.
Download or read book Solid Ivory written by James Ivory and published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux. This book was released on 2021-11-02 with total page 401 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The irreverent, brilliant memoirs of the legendary filmmaker James Ivory In Solid Ivory, a carefully crafted mosaic of memories, portraits, and reflections, the Academy Award–winning filmmaker James Ivory, a partner in the legendary Merchant Ivory Productions and the director of A Room with a View, Howards End, Maurice, and The Remains of the Day, tells stories from his remarkable life and career as one of the most influential directors of his time. At times, he touches on his love affairs, looking back coolly and with unexpected frankness. From first meeting his collaborator and life partner, Ismail Merchant, at the Indian Consulate in New York to winning an Academy Award at age eighty-nine for Call Me by Your Name; from seeing his first film at age five in Klamath Falls, Oregon, to memories of Satyajit Ray, Jean Renoir, The New Yorker magazine’s film critic Pauline Kael (his longtime enemy), Vanessa Redgrave, J. D. Salinger, George Cukor, Kenneth Clark, Bruce Chatwin, Ruth Prawer Jhabvala, and Merchant—Ivory writes with invariable fluency, wit, and perception about what made him who he is and how he made the movies for which he is known and loved. Solid Ivory, edited by Peter Cameron, is an utterly winning portrait of an extraordinary life told by an unmatched storyteller.
Download or read book Demon written by Edwin Morgan and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page 44 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book My Nine Lives written by Ruth Prawer Jhabvala and published by Catapult. This book was released on 2016-04-01 with total page 171 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 Theater. After seventeen books, now in her 77th year, Ruth Prawer Jhabvala takes on as her subject herself, the life she may have or may have wished to live.
Download or read book Love Across the Salt Desert written by Keki N. Daruwalla and published by Penguin Books India. This book was released on 2011 with total page 249 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The iconic title story of this collection narrates how Najab defies his father, the international border between India and Pakistan and the hostile salt desert of the Rann of Kutch for Fatimah. In ‘When Gandhi Came to Gorakhpur’ Shadilal, a small-time lawyer, dithers over giving up his profession and joining the freedom struggle until his mind is made up for him. And when Sultan Mahmud of Ghazni stints on a few silver coins for the poet Abul Qasim, he is visited by terrible nightmares in ‘Of Abul Qasim’. Love across the Salt Desert, which brings together a selection of Keki Daruwalla’s best-received short fiction, presents thematic variety and stunning breadth of vision. His prose is witty, precise and shot through with a unique poetic sensibility. These stories establish Daruwalla, one of India’s best-known poets, as a daring and gifted practitioner of short fiction. Son, have you brought anything? he asked, an edge of iron deliberately introduced into his voice. Yes, replied Najab, as he ushered Fatimah in. The rain stormed down and swept away three years of drought.
Download or read book Ruth Prawer Jhabvala s Heat and Dust written by I. H-Shihan and published by Atlantic Publishers & Dist. This book was released on 2006 with total page 174 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ruth Prawer Jhabvala, A Twentieth Century Expatriate Writer Of Polish-Jewish Origins And British Upbringing, Who Chose To Make India Her Home Since 1951 For More Than Two Decades, Has Made Her Mark As Writer Of Novel, Story, Screenplay, Non-Fiction, Etc, Which Have Brought Her Worldwide Recognition And Prestigious Awards And Fellowships Both In India And Abroad. Her Work Offers A Site For The Intersection Of Cultures, Especially Those Of India And Europe/America.Heat And Dust (1975), Jhabvala S Booker Winning And Most Well-Known Novel, Which Ensured Her Celebrity Status In The Literary World, Is A Delightful Interrogation Of The Imperial And Post-Imperial Discourses Vis-À-Vis India And England, As Presented Through The Parallel Lives Of Two English Women In India, Placed In Two Distinct Historical Contexts Across Half-A-Century, In Which The Young Narrator Is Set To Restore The Lost Story Of Her Predecessor From The Heat And Dust Of Passion And Oblivion.The Atlantic Critical Study Of Heat And Dust, Which Is Primarily Meant For The Students Of English Literature Of Indian Universities, Is A Comprehensive, Self-Sufficient, And An In-Depth Study Of The Text. The Present Book Provides A Thorough And Illuminating Study Of The Text And Examines It From Such Aspects As Race Relations, Man-Woman Relations, Themes, Form, Structure, And Technique. In Addition, It Provides Useful Background Materials Related To Jhabvala S Life, Works, Her Vision Of India, And A Detailed Critical Summary Of The Entire Text, Along With A Select Bibliography And Sample Questions. The Book Will Be Immensely Useful For Students, Scholars And Teachers In The Area.
Download or read book A ROOM WITH A VIEW HOWARDS END written by E. M. Forster and published by e-artnow. This book was released on 2018-11-02 with total page 518 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Room with a View – When Lucy Honeychurch embarks on a journey of a lifetime to Italy, little does she know that she would fall for the reckless man George, with whom she and co-traveller had exchanged the room with in Florence. In spite of her self-denial about her growing attraction to George Lucy knows in her heart that she cannot marry another man, let alone Cecil Vyse, who is not only downright obnoxious but also overbearing. This book is a classic romance which has also been adapted into a highly successful movie featuring Helena Bonham Carter, Julian Sands, Maggie Smith and Daniel Day-Lewis. Howards End - The story revolves around three families in England at the beginning of the 20th century: the Wilcoxes, rich capitalists with a fortune made in the colonies; the half-German Schlegel siblings (Margaret, Helen, and Tibby), whose cultural pursuits have much in common with the Bloomsbury Group; and the Basts, an impoverished young couple from a lower-class background. As fate would have it, their lives are going to be intertwined in such a manner that the secret passions and flying tempers would bring each of the family to the verge of ruin. Can they survive this vortex or will they be ruined forever?
Download or read book Organizing Empire written by Purnima Bose and published by Duke University Press. This book was released on 2003-09-08 with total page 293 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Organizing Empire critically examines how concepts of individualism functioned to support and resist British imperialism in India. Through readings of British colonial and Indian nationalist narratives that emerged in parliamentary debates, popular colonial histories, newsletters, memoirs, biographies, and novels, Purnima Bose investigates the ramifications of reducing collective activism to individual intentions. Paying particular attention to the construction of gender, she shows that ideas of individualism rhetorically and theoretically bind colonials, feminists, nationalists, and neocolonials to one another. She demonstrates how reliance on ideas of the individual—as scapegoat or hero—enabled colonial and neocolonial powers to deny the violence that they perpetrated. At the same time, she shows how analyses of the role of the individual provide a window into the dynamics and limitations of state formations and feminist and nationalist resistance movements. From a historically grounded, feminist perspective, Bose offers four case studies, each of which illuminates a distinct individualizing rhetorical strategy. She looks at the parliamentary debates on the Amritsar Massacre of 1919, in which several hundred unarmed Indian protesters were killed; Margaret Cousins’s firsthand account of feminist organizing in Ireland and India; Kalpana Dutt’s memoir of the Bengali terrorist movement of the 1930s, which was modeled in part on Irish anticolonial activity; and the popular histories generated by ex-colonial officials and their wives. Bringing to the fore the constraints that colonial domination placed upon agency and activism, Organizing Empire highlights the complexity of the multiple narratives that constitute British colonial history.
Download or read book A Backward Place written by Ruth Prawer Jhabvala and published by Abacus. This book was released on 2017-12-07 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Reef written by Romesh Gunesekera and published by National Geographic Books. This book was released on 1996-02-01 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The "incandescent" (New York Times Book Review) coming-of-age-story and debut novel by the acclaimed Booker Prize finalist Romesh Gunesekera Triton loved living in Mister Salgado's house. It was the biggest house he had ever seen--filled with floors to sweep and silver to polish and meals to cook and adults to impress and a brilliant master whose voice was poetry. And people from all over the world came to the house-- to sell their wares, to talk, to live, for this was where life took place. Even the sun would rise from the garage and sleep behind the del tree at night. And in the house, life was good. But beyond Mister Salgado's house and their Sri Lankan village there was a world. And all around them, it was falling apart...
Download or read book The Siege of Krishnapur written by J.G. Farrell and published by New York Review of Books. This book was released on 2010-06-23 with total page 378 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner of the Booker Prize. An insightful and thrilling novel about the British Empire in India during the Great Mutiny of 1857, as seen through the eyes of a young, love-struck idealist. India, 1857—the year of the Great Mutiny, when Muslim soldiers turned in bloody rebellion on their British overlords. This time of convulsion is the subject of J. G. Farrell's The Siege of Krishnapur, widely considered one of the finest British novels of the last fifty years. Farrell's story is set in an isolated Victorian outpost on the subcontinent. Rumors of strife filter in from afar, and yet the members of the colonial community remain confident of their military and, above all, moral superiority. But when they find themselves under actual siege, the true character of their dominion—at once brutal, blundering, and wistful—is soon revealed. The Siege of Krishnapur is a companion to Troubles, about the Easter 1916 rebellion in Ireland, and The Singapore Grip, which takes place just before World War II, as the sun begins to set upon the British Empire. Together these three novels offer an unequaled picture of the follies of empire.
Download or read book An Experience of India written by Ruth Prawer Jhabvala and published by . This book was released on 1972 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
