Travelers

<p>In Travelers, Jhabvala examines the unlikely convergence of four wanderers: Asha, an imperious Indian widow, Raymond, a curious Englishman, Lee, an American looking for her spiritual core, and Gopi, an impressionable young student. With a mixture of impassioned dialogue and subtle narrative, Jhabvala examines the psychological and cultural forces that wend their paths into inextricable knots of love and conflict.</p>

Literature & Fiction

JHABVALA, Ruth Prawer

United States

Harpercollins

Light shelf wear to the book and price-clipped jacket, top edge dusty, else clean and umarked. First printing, full number line. With the Booker Prize sticker on the jacket. The book was made into an award winning merchan Ivory film of the same name. "Heat and Dust is the story of two English women living in India more than fifty years apart. Olivia shares a troubled marriage with Douglas Rivers, an English civil servant in the colonial India of the 1920s. Anne, Olivia's grand niece, comes to the subcontinent -- thirty years after the sun has set on the British empire -- to investigate Olivia's life, which her family regarded as "something dark and terrible." Shortly after her passage to India in 1923, the beautiful young Olivia finds herself bored by English colonial social circles -- she wonders how people who lead such exciting lives could remain so dull --though she is entranced by India itself. Olivia is introduced to the Nawab of Khatm, a romantic and decadent minor prince who enjoys a Forsterian intimacy with his British confidant, Harry. The willful Englishwoman begins going to Khatm to spend time with the Nawab and they fall in love, engaging in an affair that is not without wrenching consequences in her public and private lives.'--From the Merchant-Ivory description. Every effort is made to ship all books and other items within 24 hours. Clean recycled packing material will be used when possible. The Book Shed has a been a member of the Vermont Antiquarian Bookseller's Association since 1997. An online bookseller with a bookshop sensibility!

Heat and Dust

Literary

Harper and Row

Set, of course in India, these stories are concerned not so much with Europeans in India as with Indians themselves. They are about universal human passionsâ€”yet interwoven with India itself. The heat, the vastness, the loneliness of India are all reflected in the lives of the people living in a country that is not so much an additional character as, often, the most central one. As always she tells her tales with compassion, penetration, humor, and the blithe gift of narration familiar to the hundreds of thousands who have seen the she scripted for the legendary Merchant Ivory teamâ€”such as Howards End, The Remains of the Day, A Room with a View, and her own Heat and Dustâ€”and who have delighted in her novels.

HOW I BECAME A HOLY MOTHER And Other Stories.

Short Stories & Anthologies

Harper & Row (1979)

In Travelers, Jhabvala examines the unlikely convergence of four wanderers: Asha, an imperious Indian widow, Raymond, a curious Englishman, Lee, an American looking for her spiritual core, and Gopi, an impressionable young student. With a mixture of impassioned dialogue and subtle narrative, Jhabvala examines the psychological and cultural forces that wend their paths into inextricable knots of love and conflict.

HarperCollins, Publishers

In 1923 the beautiful, spoiled, and bored Olivia, married to Douglas and his career in the Indian Civil Service, outrages the English and Indian communities by eloping with an Indian prince. Fifty years later, Douglas’s granddaughter, armed with Olivia’s letters, goes back to the heat and dust and squalor of the bazaars to find out for herself how Olivia could have been so affected by India that she turned her back on her own country.

Heat and dust (Perennial library)

Harper&Row

How I Became a Holy Mother and Other Stories

Contemporary

Penguin Books Canada, Limited

<p>Provides a vivid picture of life in an Indian city. The book follows the emergence of Prem from his comparatively carefree student life living at home, to the status of teacher, husband and householder.</p>

Householder

Penguin Uk

Backward Place

In Search of Love and Beauty

Penguin??Books

The Nature of Passion

Penguin

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