Ruth Prawer Jhabvala (1927-2013), author of several novels and short stories, worked on major motion pictures in collaboration with James Ivory and Ismail Merchant, winning the Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay for Howards End and A Room with a View. She won the Booker Prize in 1975 for Heat and Dust.
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Multilayered, subtle, insightful short stories from the inimitable Booker Prize–winning author Nobody has written so powerfully of the relationship between and within India and the Western middle classes than Ruth Prawer Jhabvala. In this selection o... SEE MORE