The Householder - Couverture souple

Jhabvala, Ruth Prawer

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0349142777 ISBN 13 : 9780349142777

Editeur : Robinson, 2016

Synopsis

The classic novel from the Booker and Oscar-winning author of Heat and Dust, published by Abacus for the first time in a beautiful new edition.

A propos du livre

À propos de l?auteur

Ruth Prawer Jhabvala published twelve novels including the Booker Prize-winning Heat and Dust and five volumes of short stories. She also wrote more than a dozen screenplays, including Howard's End and A Room with a View, for both of which she received an Academy Award. Ruth Prawer Jhabvala died in 2013.

À propos de la quatrième de couverture

Prem is a recently married teacher who is neither very good at teaching nor at being married. He is promised an ally against his wife Indu, whom he regards with varying degrees of irritation, when his mother comes to visit. He soon finds, though, that maternal interference is far from helpful, and he receives comfort from an entirely unexpected quarter - his wife - as he discovers through her the joys of being a 'settled husband and householder'.


From every page rise the heat, the smells, the flashing iridescent colours and the ceaseless rhythms of Indian life. And such is the strength of Ruth Prawer Jhabvala's humorous and perceptive pen that this appealing tale of a young man trying to come to terms with marriage and maturity becomes more than a highly comic vignette of a particular society - it is also a reflection of a universal experience.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Robinson
• Date d'édition: 2016
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0349142777
• ISBN 13: 9780349142777
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 224
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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