about the author

Ruth Prawer Jhabvala
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Ruth Prawer Jhabvala, CBE (born May 7, 1927) is a Booker prize-winning novelist, short story writer, and two-time Academy Award-winning screenwriter. She is perhaps best known for her long collaboration with Merchant Ivory Productions, made up of director James Ivory and the late producer Ismail Merchant. Their films won [...]

Tasks to April 3rd

Task I: characteristical ‘table’ of persons (basing on diary-entry no. 1)
narrator
//appearance

//state of mind

careful: is very concerned about thieves

//background

just arrived in Bombay/India
comes from England: “of course I’m still on English time”
lives in the women’s dormitory of the ‘Society Of Missionaries’ hostel

//aims & wishes

“neighbour-woman” in the dormitory
//appearance

looks like a ghost
“tied her hair in one dropping plait”
“paper-white” [...]