The novels of Kamala Markandaya and Ruth Jhabvala

a study in East-West encounter

Plot

The book discusses the East-West encounter in all its ramifications in the writings of the two novelists. The study encompasses, adopting a comparative approach, all the major novels including Kamala Markandaya’s A Silence of Desire, Possession, A Handful of Rice, Nectar in a Sieve and Ruth Jhabvala’s Esmond in India, A Backward Place, Heat and Dust and Three Continents.