Shakuntala is a young Indian woman who returns to post-Independence Delhi from Oxford University. Sketching a gallery of fascinating and distinctive characters against a rich background, she draws the contrast between two very different families and their daily lives -- their squabbles, their politics, their love affairs, their expectations. She brings to life the nostalgic Englishman Esmond Stillwood, also the beautiful Gulab and her son Ravi, the elderly Uma, and Shakuntala's family and the neighbours Ram Nath and Lakshmi ... Read More
Shakuntala is a young Indian woman who returns to post-Independence Delhi from Oxford University. Sketching a gallery of fascinating and distinctive characters against a rich background, she draws the contrast between two very different families and their daily lives -- their squabbles, their politics, their love affairs, their expectations. She brings to life the nostalgic Englishman Esmond Stillwood, also the beautiful Gulab and her son Ravi, the elderly Uma, and Shakuntala's family and the neighbours Ram Nath and Lakshmi. A master of both the comic and the serious, Ruth Prawer Jhabvala has constructed a richly ripe Indian comedy of manners. She strips bare that certain section of affluent Indian society which is particularly vulnerable to the seductions of an imperial presence, and brilliantly and wittily crystallizes some of the confusions that bedevilled India at the dawn of Independence. Read Less
Add this copy of Esmond in India to cart. $3.65, very good condition, Sold by Kennys.ie rated 5.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Galway, IRELAND, published 1980 by Penguin Books Ltd.
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Add this copy of Esmond in India to cart. $12.29, good condition, Sold by John C. Newland rated 5.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Cheltenham, Glos., UNITED KINGDOM, published 1958 by George Allen & Unwin.
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Used-Good. Good hardback in Good dust jacket. Top 1/4 of front free end paper cut off, with biro line below; binding tight; dust jacket not price-clipped, but worn & chipped at edges.
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Physical description; 205 pages; 20 cm. Subjects; English fiction. English fiction; 20th century. Drama. English literature; 20th century. English literature. Literary fiction. Fine paperback copy. Classic Penguin/Allen Lane design. Particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, and clean.
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