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Six colourful, comic characters inhabit A Backward Place. All but one are Westerners who have come to Delhi to experience an alternative way of life. But, far from being hippies, their ability to adapt to this exotic culture often leaves something to be desired. Etta, an aristocratic, faded beauty maintains her Parisian chic while Clarissa talks enthusiastically about the simple life but stops short of ever roughing it herself. On the other hand Bal, the one Indian protagonist, holds quite Western aspirations to Hollywood glamour.
A Backward Place humorously explores contradictions in attitudes and lifestyles and the interplay between culture and individuality. But it is also a Dickensian drama, charting the highs and lows of everyday life against the enchanting backdrop of a bustling Indian city.
Biographie de l'auteur
Ruth Prawer Jhabvala was born in Germany of Polish parents and came to England in 1939 at the age of twelve. She graduated from Queen Mary College, London University, and married an architect. They lived in Delhi from 1951 to 1975. Since then they have divided their time between Delhi, New York and London.
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A Backward Place
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Penguin Books, Limited, 1998
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Backward Place
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Backward Place by Ruth Prawer Jhabvala 1982
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Softcover Printed Full Colour. Etat : Fine. No Jacket. ## Backward Place by Jhabvala, Ruth Prawe 1982 ## ## THIS BOOK: Classified as FINE. This edition published in 1982. First published by John Murray in 1965, and the first Penguin book in 1980, reprinted in 1981 and 1982. A book that shows a few signs of being read; the cover is full-colour matt. There is some very minor bumping; the page edges are slightly discoloured due to paper quality and time.### ## The trouble with Bal was not his lack of ideas but the fact that they tended to be rather grand long-term visions; his life was organized on a decidedly short-term basis. For Judy, his English wife, Etta the ageing sophisticate, Clarissa the upper-middle-class drop-out from the English establishment, the worthy Hochstadts on a two-year exchange visit, and all the other characters who figure in this enchanting novel, India poses a host of contradictions. Unfailingly wise, funny and brilliantly handled, Ruth PrawerJhabvala's creation brings to remarkable life the small tragedies and triumphs of daily life in this Indian Vanity Fair.## ### INTERNATIONAL BUYERS: Please Note. FREE SHIPPING IS UK ONLY. PLEASE, contact me for a shipping quotation. ###. No Author signature. N° de réf. du vendeur MMXX-163-penguin
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