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A backward place

A backward place

by Ruth Prawer Jhabvala

1965Indic literatureEnglish fictionFictionEnglishSocial life and customs
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Indic literatureEnglish fictionFictionEnglishSocial life and customsManners and customs
First published 1965

About the author

Ruth Prawer Jhabvala
Ruth Prawer Jhabvala

May 7, 1927 – April 3, 2013

Ruth Prawer Jhabvala, CBE was a German-born British and American Booker prize-winning novelist, short story writer and two-time Academy Award-winning screenwriter. Source: wikipedia

Author

Ruth Prawer Jhabvala

First published

1965

Pages

255

Read time

≈ 6h

Editions

8

Language

English

Publisher

J. Murray

ISBN

9780719561955

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