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Afficher les exemplaires de cette édition ISBNShakuntala is a young Indian woman who returns to post-Independence Delhi from Oxford University. Sketching a gallery of fascinating and distinctive characters against a rich background, she draws the contrast between two very different families and their daily lives - their squabbles, their politics, their love affairs, their expectations. She brings to life the nostalgic Englishman Esmond Stillwood, also the beautiful Gulab and her son Ravi, the elderly Uma, and Shakuntala's family and the neighbours Ram Nath and Lakshmi.
A master of both the comic and the serious, Ruth Prawer Jhabvala has constructed a richly ripe Indian comedy of manners. She strips bare that certain section of affluent Indian society which is particularly vulnerable to the seductions of an imperial presence, and brilliantly and wittily crystallizes some of the confusions that bedevilled India at the dawn of Independence.
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Description du livre Etat : Good. Most items will be dispatched the same or the next working day. Ex library copy with usual stamps & stickers. N° de réf. du vendeur wbs2696822157
Description du livre Hardcover. Etat : Good. Etat de la jaquette : No Dust Jacket. X X; 256 pages. N° de réf. du vendeur 96518
Description du livre Hardcover. Etat : Fine. Etat de la jaquette : Fine. 1st Edition. First Edition. Jhabvala's third novel, a social comedy set in post-colonial New Dehli. Jhabvala is no doubt the best Polish novelist writing about Asia in English since Conrad. Bookplate on front pastedown, else fine in fine dustjacket. A lovely copy. N° de réf. du vendeur 5436