Ruth Prawer Jhabvala - Novels and Short Stories (9 books) torrent

RUTH PRAWER JHABVALA (1927-2013) was a German-born British and American Booker prize-winning novelist, short story writer and two-time Academy Award-winning screenwriter. She is perhaps best known for her long collaboration with film director James Ivory and producer Ismail Merchant.

After moving to India in 1951, she married an Indian-Parsi architect. Jhabvala began then to elaborate her experiences in India and wrote novels and tales on Indian subjects. She was often compared to Jane Austen for her microscopic studies of a tightly conventional world. Her position as both insider and detached observer allowed her a unique, sometimes satirical perspective when describing Indian family life, India's struggle to adapt to a new social mobility, and the clash between Eastern and Western ideals. Raymond Mortimer thought she beat all other western novelists in her understanding of modern India. Her novel HEAT AND DUST (1975) won the Booker Prize and was made into a film in 1982. It tells parallel stories of colonial and contemporary India. Her first departure from Indian subject matter occurred in IN SEARCH OF LOVE AND BEAUTY (1983), which portrays Austrian and German refugees searching for spiritual truths in New York.

Her original screenplays and adaptations of literary classics for Merchant-Ivory Productions were met with box-office and critical success. She wrote 23 screenplays, including adaptations of EM Forster's "A Room with a View" (1985) and "Howards End" (1992), for both of which Jhabvala won Academy Awards. Jhabvala is the only person to have won both a Booker Prize and an Oscar.


The following books are in ePUB format unless otherwise noted:

* East Into Upper East: Plain Tales from New York and New Delhi (Counterpoint, 1998)
* Heat and Dust (Counterpoint, 1999)
* Householder, The (Norton, 2001)
* In Search of Love and Beauty (Counterpoint, 1999)
* "Judge's Will, The" (New Yorker, 25 March 2013) -- PDF
* Lovesong for India, A (Counterpoint, 2012)
* My Nine Lives: Chapters of a Possible Past (Counterpoint, 2005)
* Out of India: Selected Stories (Counterpoint, 2000)
* Three Continents (Counterpoint, 1999)
* Travelers [A New Dominion] (Counterpoint, 1999)

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