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Ruth Prawer Jhabvala

    7. Mai 1927 – 3. April 2013

    Ruth Prawer Jhabvala war eine gefeierte Autorin, die vor allem für ihre Erkundungen von Ost-West-Begegnungen bekannt ist. Ihr literarisches Werk zeichnet sich durch tiefen Einblick in kulturelle Unterschiede und die Psychologie von Charakteren aus, die sich zwischen Welten bewegen. In ihrer Fiktion fing sie die Komplexität menschlicher Beziehungen und die sich wandelnden Landschaften gesellschaftlicher Normen ein. Ihr unverwechselbarer Stil und ihre thematische Tiefe haben ihr einen bedeutenden Platz in der Literatur gesichert.

    My Nine Lives
    East Into Upper East
    Die Liebesheirat
    Eine Witwe mit Geld
    Hitze und Staub. Roman
    Heat and Dust
    • Heat and Dust

      Schulausgabe für das Niveau B2, ab dem 6. Lernjahr. Ungekürzter englischer Originaltext mit Annotationen

      3,5(99)Abgeben

      A profound and powerful novel, winner of the Booker Prize Set in colonial India during the 1920s, Heat and Dust tells the story of Olivia, a beautiful woman suffocated by the propriety and social constraints of her position as the wife of an important English civil servant. Longing for passion and independence, Olivia is drawn into the spell of the Nawab, a minor Indian prince deeply involved in gang raids and criminal plots. She is intrigued by the Nawab's charm and aggressive courtship, and soon begins to spend most of her days in his company. But then she becomes pregnant, and unsure of the child's paternity, she is faced with a wrenching dilemma. Her reaction to the crisis humiliates her husband and outrages the British community, breeding a scandal that lives in collective memory long after her death.

      Heat and Dust
    • Eine Witwe mit Geld

      • 252 Seiten
      • 9 Lesestunden

      Belletristik : Deutschland/Indien/Delhi ; Frau.

      Eine Witwe mit Geld
    • Belletristik : Deutschland/Indien/Delhi ; Roman.

      Die Liebesheirat
    • This brilliant collection spans two worlds - the restless, aspiring society of New York's Upper East Side and the world of India's capital city, New Delhi. A rich cast of characters inhabit these stories.

      East Into Upper East
    • For her first novel in more than nine years, Ruth Prawer Jhabvala has written a most unusual book in a career of distinctive and unique accomplishments. My Nine Lives is "Chapters of a Possible Past," as the subtitle declares. It is, as the author has commented, a book filled with "invented memories." Nine vignettes are linked to portray a rich life filled with searching, from London to Delhi, from Hollywood to New York. Each chapter gathers a different cast of characters, some new and some vaguely familiar, and the linked assembly is as exciting and illuminating as an artist's first show at a Soho gallery or a new play at the Studio Theater. After seventeen books, now in her 77th year, Ruth Prawer Jhabvala takes on as her subject herself, the life she may have or may have wished to live.

      My Nine Lives
    • At the End of the Century

      • 448 Seiten
      • 16 Lesestunden
      3,9(97)Abgeben

      Multi-layered, subtle, insightful short stories from the inimitable Booker- prize winning author, Ruth Prawer Jhabvala

      At the End of the Century
    • Get Ready for Battle

      • 160 Seiten
      • 6 Lesestunden
      3,5(10)Abgeben

      A portrait of middle-class family life in contemporary Delhi. Through the conflicting ambitions, business intrigues and the personal and emotional entanglements, the book mocks the self-seeking nature of a group of people who are ready for battle - with each other and themselves.

      Get Ready for Battle
    • Poet and Dancer

      • 224 Seiten
      • 8 Lesestunden
      1,5(2)Abgeben

      A haunting tale of the complex and perilous relations between two young cousins, Angel and Lara. A masterful novel which explores the dangers of love and commitment.

      Poet and Dancer
    • A Backward Place

      • 320 Seiten
      • 12 Lesestunden
      3,0(6)Abgeben

      A classic novel from the Booker-winning author of Heat and Dust - an Indian Vanity Fair.

      A Backward Place