Three Continents - Couverture souple

Jhabvala, Ruth Prawer

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 071956655X ISBN 13 : 9780719566554

Editeur : John Murray Publishers Ltd, 2004

Synopsis

Last-of-line scions of a prominent American family, Harriet and her twin brother, Michael, have so far resisted the whirligig of adulteries and diplomatic cocktail parties that seem to be their sole inheritance. Spoilt, blindly idealistic and extremely rich, they seem set to prove perfect fodder for the charismatic Rawul of Dhoka and his sinister Sixth World Movement...

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À propos 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 the Indian architect C.S.H. Jhabvala. They lived in Delhi from 1951 to 1975. Since then they have divided their time between Delhi, New York and London. As well as her numerous novels and short stories, in collaboration with James Ivory and Ismail Merchant Ruth Prawer Jhabvala has written scripts for film and television, including A Room with a View and Howards End, both of which are Academy Award winners. She won the Booker Prize for Heat and Dust in 1975, the Neil Gunn International Fellowship in 1978, the MacArthur Foundation Fellowship in 1984 and was made a CBE in the 1998 New Year's Honours List.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: John Murray Publishers Ltd
• Date d'édition: 2004
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 071956655X
• ISBN 13: 9780719566554
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 384
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible