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The first edition of this Booker Prize winning novel set in India, by Ruth Pawer Jhabvala. The first edition, first impression.In the publisher's original cloth with the original clipped dust wrapper.This novel was written by Ruth Prawer Jhabvala, a British and American novelist and screenwriter, and was the winner of the Booker Prize and ranked by the Telegraph as one of the ten all-time greatest Asian novels in 2014. This novel follows a young woman travelling to India to find out more about her step-grandmother, Olivia. After reading various letters written by Olivia and learning from her own experiences in India, she uncovers the truth about her step-grandmother's life during the British Raj in the 1920s. In the publisher's original cloth with the original clipped dust wrapper. Externally lovely with only minimal offsetting to the endpapers. The wrap is excellent with handling marks to the rear and sunning to the spine. Internally firmly bound with clean and bright pages. Fine.