Ruth Prawer Jhabvala and the Art of Ambivalence - The New Yorker

Ruth Prawer was born in Cologne in 1927 into a bourgeois, assimilated Jewish family. ... Aphrodisiac. By Ruth Prawer Jhabvala. Persons of Interest. James Ivory and the Making of a Historic Gay ...

Love Is Blind and Deaf - The New Yorker

Aphrodisiac. By Ruth Prawer Jhabvala. Fiction. Brokeback Mountain "They never talked about the sex, let it happen, at first only in the tent at night, then in the full daylight." ...

The O. Henry Prize Stories 2013 by Laura Furman - Goodreads

Aphrodisiac. Ruth Prawer Jhabvala What a tale! The fetid fecundity, the urine-and-milk femininity corrupted in retro-graded possession and histrionics. The rational and western-educated mind did not prevent our protagonist to break the magic of such revolting aphrodisiac, the primal call from the depth of carnal control and possession, against ...

Ruth Prawer Jhabvala: A Lifelong Refugee (1927-2013)

By Pauline McGonagle, Collaborative PhD candidate with the British Library and University of Exeter working on the Ruth Prawer Jhabvala archive. Pauline's work on Ruth Prawer Jhabvala has recently appeared in Wasifiri and formed part of a case-study on collaborative PhDs at the Library.. A Jewish refugee child of Polish origin, who escaped to England in 1939 from Cologne under Nazism, without ...