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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.
Winner The Booker Prize 1975
- By
- Ruth Prawer Jhabvala
- 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
