A Backward Place
$16.14
- Paperback
320 pages
- Release Date
13 February 2018
Summary
Six colourful, comic characters inhabit A Backward Place. All but one are Westerners who have come to Delhi to experience an alternative way of life. But, far from being hippies, their ability to adapt to this exotic culture often leaves something to be desired. Etta, an aristocratic, faded beauty maintains her Parisian chic while Clarissa talks enthusiastically about the simple life but stops short of ever roughing it herself. On the other hand Bal, the one Indian protagonist, holds quite We…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780349142753 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0349142750 |
| Author: | Ruth Prawer Jhabvala |
| Publisher: | Little, Brown Book Group |
| Imprint: | Abacus |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 320 |
| Release Date: | 13 February 2018 |
| Weight: | 250g |
| Dimensions: | 197mm x 129mm x 21mm |
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About The Author
Ruth Prawer Jhabvala
Ruth Prawer Jhabvala published twelve novels including the Booker Prize-winning Heat and Dust and five volumes of short stories. She also wrote more than a dozen screenplays, including Howard’s End and A Room with a View, for both of which she received an Academy Award. Ruth Prawer Jhabvala died in 2013.
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