Prem is a recently married teacher who is neither very good at teaching nor at being married. He ...

This observant and insightful novel reveals, in rich and poignant detail, the interior lives...

Six colourful, comic characters inhabit A Backward Place. All but one are Westerners who have com...

This brilliant collection spans two worlds - the restless, aspiring society of New York's Upper E...

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'A magnificent selection of the Booker winner's short stories' Sunday TimesWith an introduction b...

In Travelers, Jhabvala examines the unlikely convergence of four wanderers: Asha, an imperio...

Chosen by The New York Times Book Review as one of the best books of 1986, this volume of st...

"e;All the figures in this book...are irresistible comic manifestations."e;—The New...

Taking us from a sweltering Indian rooftop at night to the marble halls of an ageing Bollywood st...

Three Continents is a tale of the clash between the easternized West and the westerni...

Angel is dark and plain, introverted and submissive, a spontaneous composer of childish verses, w...