nC,OMEONE oner mid that the definition of the highest kJ art is that oar should feel that life » this and not otherw fc 1 do not know of a writer living wto give* that feeling with more -oquakikd eertamn than Mr* Jhabv ah.' wrote P Snow and the Sunday Times dracribcd her a*, 'a writer of genius of world c lass — a master story tetter

she sets her stories tn India and has ims. ikons, amsh been able to portrai a modern India, even if it is only j modern westernised India.

I hr Btiikir winning author Ruth Prawer Jhabvala * new novel Shards of Memory "appears on the 13th of the current month '..Memory' tells the story of the lives of tour generations of a family and their invtifvemrni with a mvstert ous and chansmatk spiritual leader With compassion, wit and intelli genr e it i* a tale of love and devil tion familyand faith.

Born in t^rmam of Polish par ents Jhabvala al the age of twelve ewe to Errand, there she graduated from bmdtm I nreereirys Queen Mary (ottegt and married an Indian arehr tect. They lived in Delhi between 1951 and IT5. Since then, they hare divided their time between Delhi New York and Iimdon.

pn>l>kd wah modrrn. wciLott ctd fund Indians For her. Tu live in Uxha and be n peace, one must to a ven c onsiderable extent become Indian and adopt Indian attitudes liabits. hebrt. assume if posstbk an Indian personalin But how is this pouaMr ’ And even if it were possible - widtum cheating oneself - woukl it be desarabie- Should one want to try to bec ome something other than what one ite I don t afwavs soy no to this question.' So chi* it how the re sokes the question of tMjmttuuin ■> a foregpi soil We find in her an cmi

teiisrh »od>en.diriorefine*»ofthe exile does not experience the an gutsh of separation from a mother land and so is able to write widaaut the bitter abenation of similarly plat expatriates.

I h r |HiblislK-d works uKiudr four colk-ctioM of short stories "Like Bird*. Like Fishel", "How I Became a Holy Mother," "A Stronger Climate", and "An I. \perience of India" ml a *ekx non from these volumes, entitled Hut of India She lias to far wrote nine novels inhaling the forth 11 suing one the number would be ten.

Her previous lilies are To Whom She Will," The Nature of Passion, Esmond in India", The Householder". Vet Ready for Battle . "A Neu Dominion ", Heat and Dutt" (winner of the IMW Booker). Tn Search of Love and Beauty" and "Three ( ontinents.

Io collaboration wchJame* Ivon and ImiuiI Merchant she ha* written w npt» tor film and teievnaai. sahid ■ ng Shakespeare Wallah. Autobiography of a Princess, The Euro-peane, Quartet. Heal and Dust. The Bostonian* mi A Room with a View Room with a Viewwon an Academy Award in 1TK Jhabvala won the Neil Gunn

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Hingham Wins Ronumtii Novel Award

HABLOTTE Bingham win* Britain v Bumanak Mond of the Year Award this year for her Change of Heart" The Daily Mail com mem* on the novela fairy tale, >hub s biter moredett^dhd wks

-mrthm, one expert* from a modern novel. Bing ham v award winning romantic novel hit* the hirukMuR* dm month. Abeady shorttaed for the Sunday Express pnz< David McLaurin s imm-I The Bishop of San Fernando ia highly recommended by the critics. Published by Flamingo, the title appears neat month.