My Nine Lives - Rilegato

Prawer Jhabvala, Ruth

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ISBN 10: 0719561825 ISBN 13: 9780719561825

Casa editrice: John Murray Publishers Ltd, 2004

Riassunto

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 a grown married woman, in another a dependent daughter, in one a scholar, in another an uneducated ingenue. 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?

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Recensione:

These stories ... show an admired writer ... in total possession of her creative powers. (Literary Review)

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 (The Sunday Times)

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)

Savour this fine collection of stories... the sort of writing that marks out a genuine mistress of her craft (The Sunday Times)

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

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

Sinewy with compressed emotion and intellectual energy, as well as the poignancy of a thwarted search for love... a finely crafted example of an accomplished story-teller's art (Publisher's Weekly)

She creates a scenario so powerfully that you are there with her in the spicy heat of India (The Daily Telegraph)

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)

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

L'autore:

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.

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• Editore: John Murray Publishers Ltd
• Data di pubblicazione: 2004
• ISBN 10: 0719561825
• ISBN 13: 9780719561825
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero di pagine: 288