Book Description
This witty and perceptive novel is about Prem, a young teacher in New Delhi who has just become a householder and is finding his responsibilities perplexing.


About the Author
Ruth Prawer Jhabvala spends her time in New York and in India. REVIEW: All the figures in this book...are irresistible comic manifestations. (The New Yorker)

FROM THE PUBLISHER

This witty and perceptive novel is about Prem, a young teacher in New Delhi who has just become a householder and is finding his responsibilities perplexing.

Author Biography: Ruth Prawer Jhabvala spends her time in New York and in India.

FROM THE CRITICS

New Yorker