Ruth Prawer Jhabvala as a Novelist

Ruth Prawer Jhabvala is a novelist of unequalled insight, grace and emotional power. Born in Germany and educated in London, Jhabvala married an Indian architect Jhabvala and lived in India for twenty four years from 1951 upto 1975. In each of her novels there is a mixed feeling of affection and impatience for her second home, besides an intimate knowledge of the lives of both Indian and European people. Her career as a novelist reached its zenith with the publication of Heat and Dust (1975), wh