Jhabvala, Ruth Prawer (Vol. 8) - Jhabvala, Ruth Prawer 1927–
Jhabvala, Ruth Prawer 1927–
Jhabvala is a novelist, short story writer, and screenwriter who was born in Germany of Polish parents, was educated in England, and has lived primarily in India since 1951. A perceptive, often satiric, observer of Europeans living in India and of the lifestyle of middle-class urban Indians, she portrays with wit and irony both Eastern and Western sensibilities. (See also CLC, Vol. 4, and Contemporary Authors, Vols. 1-4, rev. ed.)
Like her last novel, Travellers (and like her seven earlier novels), Ruth Jhabvala's new work [Heat and Dust] is distinguished by a rapier wit and subtlety, in a blend altogether unique to her. Invariably, Mrs. Jhabvala refuses the flat satiric thrust, the temptation to have the last word about her characters settled and done with, however cleverly. Rather, even the most callow-seeming and predictable of them have their moment of expansion and mystery; it is the mark...
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