At the End of the Century: The Stories of Ruth Prawer Jhabvala

A New York Times Book Review Editors’ Choice

BOOKER PRIZE-WINNING AUTHOR: 17 short stories “about belonging, desire, and the boundaries of love” from “one of the 20th century’s great female writers”—with a foreword by Anita Desai (Washington Post).

“Jhabvala has Alice Munro’s gift for making you feel you’re reading a novel in miniature.” —Seattle Times

Nobody has written so powerfully of the relationship between and within India and the Western middle classes than Ruth Prawer Jhabvala. In...