MY NINE LIVES : CHAPTERS OF A POSSIBLE PAST
Book ID/图书代码： 07100004B0164
English Summary/英文概要： 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 ingenue. 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?
Chinese Summary/中文概要： 當潔荷·巴瓦拉撰寫了多年劇本后，似乎對於命運的無力感有了更深的體認。在這本最新的作品中，透過九段不同的人生故事，發生在印度紐約等不同地方，職業身份也都不同，探討命運如何被影響。如果真能夠選擇自己的人生，那又能怎樣。編過許多人生據碼的潔荷·巴瓦拉提供了就種不同的答案。（VC）
Awards/获奖情况：Savour this fine collection of stories the sort of writing that marks out a genuine mistress of her craft (The Sunday Times )
Each work has her hallmark of balance, subtlety, wry humor and beauty (New York Times Book Review )
’These stories ... show an admired writer ... in total possession of her creative powers.’ (Literary Review )
’She creates a scenario so powerfully that you are there with her in the spicy heat of India’ ’By the end, while she may not fully have revealed herself, she has shown the grand sweep of life.’ - Elena Seymenliyska. (The Daily Telegraph )
’The most prominent theme is a string of inadvisable affairs with irascible, unreliable older men ...perhaps it’ll be 10th time lucky?’ ’One is dazzled but tantalised by veiled fragments of a life that might have been.’ (The Guardian )
‘[Jhabvala] has taken the immigrant experience and personalised it in a wonderfully unique way’ (Independent on Sunday)
’Imagining what life might have been ...this is fiction that comes as close to autobiography as the author dares.’ - Emma Hagestadt. (The Independent )
Ruth Prawer Jhabvala is a wonderful natural storyteller utterly compelling. It is a delight, from first page to last (The Scotsman )---’Combined, these tales form an oblique portrait of the inner life of the author.’ (Sunday Times )
Bryan Cheyette, Times Literary Supplement---’Elegantly crafted tales...they illustrate, magnificently, the dubious comforts of English innocence’
You---’Suffused with a strong flavour of personal experience’
Guardian---’One is dazzled but tantalised by veiled fragments of a life that might have been.’
Sunday Times---’Combined, these tales form an oblique portrait of the inner life of the author.’
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