In Travelers, Jhabvala examines the unlikely convergence of four wanderers: Asha, an imperious Indian widow, Raymond, a curious Englishman, Lee, an American looking for her spiritual core, and Gopi, an impressionable young student. With a mixture of impassioned dialogue and subtle narrative, Jhabvala examines the psychological and cultural forces that wend their paths into inextricable knots of love and conflict.

Travelers

Literature & Fiction

JHABVALA, Ruth Prawer

United States

Black Balloon Publishing LLC dba Counterpoint

After fifty years of marriage in the same Dublin suburb, Dick and LIly enjoy a "safe" life of compromise until one night when LIly awakens to find Dick under the bed, holding a shotgun, convinced there's an intruder in the house--plunging deeper into his insanity. Reprint. 20,000 first printing.

Beloved Stranger

Boylan, Clare

Contemporary

From the award-winning author of Somewhere in France and Double Stitch, a story collection so varied that it could only have sprung from the imagination of a master. The Magellan House cuts to the bone, its characters trying to maintain their decency and sanity while surrounded by duplicitous, confused, manipulative people. In Fugitive Color, an American painter's year in Provence teaching for at an idyllic art college is destroyed by the perverse intrigues of staff and students; In The Magellan House, a poor family takes over their landlord's seaside mansion after the revolution in Portugal-but their daughter maintains a secret love affair with a scion of the deposed family; In The Head of Farnham Hall a headmaster is forced to leave her post because a student wrongly accused of death-threats takes pathological advantage of the contrition owed her; In The Doll House, a rural French pri est is ruined by his own innocence, incapable of grasping the modern world around him in all its obscenity; In The Morse Operator, a brilliant decipherer of Morse Code can't navigate the military intelligence of the American Army during World War II; And in The Shape of the Past, a respectable widow

The Magellan House: Stories

Gardiner, John Rolfe

A portrait of George Orwell's second wife, as presented by a friend, notes her achievements with Cyril Connolly on Horizon magazine, her editorial work on her husband's nonfiction writings, his portrayal of her as Julia in 1984, and the burdens she took on in widowhood. 35,000 first printing.

The Girl from the Fiction Department: Homesick at the New Yorker

Biographies & Memoirs

Spurling, Hilary

Arts & Literature

This is the author's own story of miracles found and fears allayed in the journey out of a confining urban existence and into a simpler, more joyous life. To tell this story fully, she must look through changed eyes at her past - at childhood anxieties, family disaffections, failed marriages, late motherhood, restless boredom and, paradoxically, a native talent for joy. She learns that she has been guided by faith even when she thought she had none. She begins to discern purpose and design both in her stories and in the light by which she sees them - a light refracted through a Quaker lens that searches for the sacred in all people. As the four seasons turn, she celebrates the loves of her new life - family, friends, language, silence and the extraordinary landscape of Vermont.

A Stone Bridge North

Maloy, Kate

Community & Culture