Shards of Memory

Jhabvala, Ruth Prawer

ISBN 10: 0385477228 / ISBN 13: 9780385477222

Edité par Doubleday, New York, 1995

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• Titre: Shards of Memory
• Éditeur: Doubleday, New York
• Date de parution: 1995
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN à 10 chiffres: 0385477228
• ISBN à 13 chiffres: 9780385477222
• Reliure: Hardcover
• Édition: First American Edition
• État de l'article: Fine
• État de la jaquette: Fine

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Book by Jhabvala Ruth Prawer

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A young man named Henry sits down with his grandmother, a genial lady still called Baby by everyone, in her Manhattan townhouse where he has lived all his life, to record the history of a spiritual movement that has woven itself into the fabric of their family's lives for four generations. What unfolds is a mesmerizing family saga:  the imperious great-grandmother Elsa and her husband, an Indian poet, whose marriage is as unconventional as the movement they help to found; Baby, their cheerfully pragmatic daughter, married to the aloof English diplomat Graeme; bemused and brooding Renata, Baby and Graeme's daughter, married to an idle dreamer; and finally Henry, Renata's son, who in many ways bears the legacy of all that has gone before. Their lives--and that of the movement's elusive yet ineluctable founder, known only as the Master--intertwine, diverge, and collide with each other in a masterfully orchestrated story spanning the twentieth century and several continents.

By turns brilliantly satiric, insightful, and profoundly moving, Shards Of Memory is a beautifully wrought tale of love and devotion, of family and faith, and of the complex nature of memory itself--a literary tour de force from one of the most distinguished novelists of our time.