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Ruth Prawer Jhabvala

Ruth Prawer Jhabvala

Ruth Prawer Jhabvala was born in Cologne, Germany. She wrote 12 novels, including the Booker Prize-winning Heat and Dust

As well as her novels, she produced five volumes of short stories. She also wrote more than a dozen screenplays, including film adapations of the novels Howard’s End and A Room with a View, for both of which she received an Academy Award. She also adapted Kazuo Ishiguro’s Booker Prize-winning The Remains of the Day for the screen.

Heat and Dust
Heat and Dust

Heat and Dust

Winner of The Booker Prize 1975

Published by
John Murray
Ruth Prawer Jhabvala skilfully weaves two parallel stories set in India, one in the present and the other in the days of British rule