Ruth Prawer Jhabvala is a novelist of unequalled insight, grace and emotional power. My Nine Lives represents a new and fascinating strand in her outstanding canon of work: as she puts it, the 'potentially autobiographical'. Behind her poised, eloquent prose Ruth Prawer Jhabvala deftly tussles with the existential question of how destiny is shaped.
In each chapter of My Nine Lives the narrator faces a startlingly different fate. One story takes place in India, the next in New York; in one the narrator is grown married woman, in another a dependent daughter, in one a scholar, in another an uneducated ingénue. But a complex thread interlinks the seemingly disparate stories: the 'I' of each chapter has Ruth Prawer Jhabvala's Jewish, Central European background. Here are nine different answers to the central question: what would happen if I were granted an alternative life?
In each chapter of My Nine Lives the narrator faces a startlingly different fate. One story takes place in India, the next in New York; in one the narrator is grown married woman, in another a dependent daughter, in one a scholar, in another an uneducated ingénue. But a complex thread interlinks the seemingly disparate stories: the 'I' of each chapter has Ruth Prawer Jhabvala's Jewish, Central European background. Here are nine different answers to the central question: what would happen if I were granted an alternative life?
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Hardback Editions
June 2004 : Hardback
| Title: My Nine Lives: Chapters of a Possible Past Author(s): Ruth Prawer Jhabvala ISBN: 0-7195-6182-5 / 978-0-7195-6182-5 (UK edition) Publisher: John Murray Availability: Amazon UK More details... |
April 2004 : Hardback
| Title: My Nine Lives: Chapters of a Possible Past Author(s): Ruth Prawer Jhabvala ISBN: 1-59376-028-0 / 9781593760281 (USA edition) Publisher: Counterpoint Availability: Amazon Amazon UK More details... |
2004 : Hardback
| Title: My Nine Lives: Chapters of a Possible Past [Large Print] Author(s): Ruth Prawer Jhabvala ISBN: 1-84505-717-1 / 9781845057176 (UK edition) Publisher: W.F. Howes Ltd. Availability: Amazon UK More details... |
Paperback Editions
May 2005 : Paperback
| Title: My Nine Lives: Chapters of a Possible Past Author(s): Ruth Prawer Jhabvala ISBN: 1-59376-069-8 / 9781593760694 (USA edition) Publisher: Counterpoint Availability: Amazon Amazon UK Amazon CA More details... |
March 2005 : Paperback
| Title: My Nine Lives Author(s): Ruth Prawer Jhabvala ISBN: 0-7195-6183-3 / 978-0-7195-6183-2 (UK edition) Publisher: John Murray Publishers Ltd Availability: Amazon Amazon UK Amazon CA More details... |
June 2004 : Paperback
| Title: My Nine Lives: Chapters of a Possible Past Author(s): Ruth Prawer Jhabvala ISBN: 0-7195-6197-3 / 978-0-7195-6197-9 (UK edition) Publisher: John Murray Availability: Amazon UK More details... |
Paperback
| Title: My Nine Lives. Author(s): Ruth Prawer Jhabvala ISBN: 0-340-83309-2 / 978-0-340-83309-4 (UK edition) Publisher: Sceptre Availability: Amazon Amazon UK More details... |
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