My Nine Lives - Couverture souple

Prawer Jhabvala, Ruth

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0719561833 ISBN 13 : 9780719561832

Editeur : John Murray Publishers Ltd, 2005

A propos du livre

Revue de presse

suffused with a strong flavour of personal experience (You)

They resonate with felt experience...She creates a scenario so powerfully that you are there with her in the spicy heat of India (Daily Telegraph)

Exciting, engaging and so very convincing (Irish Times)

Each work has her hallmark of balance, subtlety, wry humor and beauty (New York Times Book Review)

[Jhabvala] has taken the immigrant experience and personalised it in a wonderfully unique way (Independent on Sunday)

Conveys a whole lifetime of passion, endeavour, disappointment and achievement. These stories, written in a simple prose beautifully combining relaxation and alertness, show an admired writer ... in total possession of her creative powers. (Literary Review)

'A very personal book, Jhalbvala attempts nine different answers to the question: What would happen if I were granted a different life? (Brighton Argus)

Savour this fine collection of stories...There is a consistency of tone: reminiscent, ruefully humorous, accepting... very funny in their quiet, dry, unobtrusive way. The prose throughout is clean and uncluttered: the sort of writing that marks out a genuine mistress of her craft (Sunday Times)

The shards of memory and experience from which the stories are formed are as rich and bright as the jewelled fragments that make a kaleidoscope's image. (Sunday Telegraph)

Ruth Prawer Jhabvala is a wonderful natural storyteller...The easy tone is utterly compelling. It is a delight, from first page to last (Scotsman)

Présentation de l'éditeur

Ruth Prawer Jhabvala is a novelist of unequalled insight, grace and emotional power. My Nine Lives represents a new and fascinating strand in her outstanding canon of work: as she puts it, the 'potentially autobiographical'. Behind her poised, eloquent prose Ruth Prawer Jhabvala deftly tussles with the existential question of how destiny is shaped.

In each chapter of My Nine Lives the narrator faces a startlingly different fate. One story takes place in India, the next in New York; in one the narrator is grown married woman, in another a dependent daughter, in one a scholar, in another an uneducated ing?nue. But a complex thread interlinks the seemingly disparate stories: the 'I' of each chapter has Ruth Prawer Jhabvala's Jewish, Central European background. Here are nine different answers to the central question: what would happen if I were granted an alternative life?

À propos de cette édition

• Éditeur: John Murray Publishers Ltd
• Date d'édition: 2005
• ISBN 10: 0719561833
• ISBN 13: 9780719561832
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 288