Out of India: Selected Stories [Englisch] [Taschenbuch]

Born in Germany, educated in England, and married to an Indian, Jhabvala has spent most of her adult life in India: "a country for which I was not born." She describes her relationship with India, "this great animal of poverty and backwardness," in an introduction that contrasts the country's oppressiveness with its high culture and reveals Jhabvala's own ambivalence as a Westerner. Her fictionnine novels and four story collectionsdepicts Indian life, and often its effect on non-Indians, with sensitivity and wit. The 15 stories in Out of India were chosen by the author from her previous collections, published between 1964 and 1976. Jhabvala's introduction is the only new piece here; but the stories ("How I Became a Holy Mother," "An Experience of India," etc.) represent the best of her short fiction. Janet Wiehe, P.L. of Cincinnati & Hamilton Cty.
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Fifteen acclaimed stories from the Booker prize winning novelist. -- Dieser Text bezieht sich auf eine vergriffene oder nicht verfügbare Ausgabe dieses Titels.

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. Bearing Jhabvalas hallmark of balance, subtlety, wry humor, and beauty, these stories present characters that prove to be as vulnerable to the contradictions and oppressions of the human heart as to those of India itself.