Esmond in India (Masterplots II: British and Commonwealth Fiction Series)
At a glance:
- Author: Ruth Prawer
- First Published: 1958
- Type of Work: Social chronicle
- Time of Work: c. 1957
- Setting: New Delhi, India
- Principal Characters: Har Dayal, Madhuri, Shakuntala, Ram Nath, Lakshmi, Uma, Gulab, Esmond Stillwood
- Genres: Long fiction, Social realism
- Subjects: 1950’s, Culture, Family or family life, Race, Marriage, Friendship, Adultery, India or East Indian people
- Locales: New Delhi, India
The Novel
Esmond in India is a novel of maneuver and misunderstanding. At its center is the traditional adulterous triangle of a man, Esmond Stillwood, and two women, his wife, Gulab, and the younger Shakuntala, with whom, late in the novel, he begins an affair. Yet in ironic reversal of novelistic convention, these romantic or sexual relationships are completely dwarfed in interest and importance by the subtler domestic struggles going on around them. Gulab never finds out about Shakuntala, and, though Gulab does leave Esmond and return to her family, this has nothing to do...
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