Get Ready for Battle
by Jhabvala Ruth PrawerAvailable
Chosen by The New York Times Book Review as one of the best books of 1986, this volume of stories, selected by the author from her own early work, represents the essence of her Indian experience....
Set in colonial India during the 1920s, Heat and Dust tells the story of Olivia, a beautiful woman suffocated by the propriety and social constraints of her position as the wife of an important...
Set, of course in India, these stories are concerned not so much with Europeans in India as with Indians themselves. They are about universal human passionsand who have delighted in her novels.
Written over 20 years, these stories are domestic tapestries of the emotional lives and psychologies of lovers, quarrelling married couples, weary elders, and their restless adult children. Whether in...