SHARDS OF MEMORY

JHABVALA , Ruth Prawer , M.A.English, Award Winning Author

ISBN 10: 0385477228 / ISBN 13: 9780385477222

Published by Doubleday, NEW YORK, 1955

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First edition, 1st print 10987654321.1955. "A World Class Author of Genius & Master Storyteller " Sunday Times: Award Winning author RP Jhablava M.A., " I've heard it said that the people most difficult to see in perspective are one's own parents." Nr.Fine/Nr.Fine [Book- Dark green boards+bBlack Quarter binding cloth & Gilt titles. No inscsp. light fox spotting starting to external page edges] Dust Jacket not price clipped, $22.95. Booksellers code sticker to rear cover base. Please see our imageS of the actual book offered for sale.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: SHARDS OF MEMORY
• Publisher: Doubleday, NEW YORK
• Publication Date: 1955
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0385477228
• ISBN 13: 9780385477222
• Binding: Hard Back
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Printing: 1st Printing
• Condition: Near Fine
• Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine
• Seller catalogs:
  • Modern First Editions
  • Fiction

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Synopsis

A young man named Henry sits down with his grandmother, a genial lady still called Baby by everyone, in her Manhattan townhouse where he has lived all his life, to record the history of a spiritual movement that has woven itself into the fabric of their family's lives for four generations. What unfolds is a mesmerizing family saga:  the imperious great-grandmother Elsa and her husband, an Indian poet, whose marriage is as unconventional as the movement they help to found; Baby, their cheerfully pragmatic daughter, married to the aloof English diplomat Graeme; bemused and brooding Renata, Baby and Graeme's daughter, married to an idle dreamer; and finally Henry, Renata's son, who in many ways bears the legacy of all that has gone before. Their lives--and that of the movement's elusive yet ineluctable founder, known only as the Master--intertwine, diverge, and collide with each other in a masterfully orchestrated story spanning the twentieth century and several continents.

By turns brilliantly satiric, insightful, and profoundly moving, Shards Of Memory is a beautifully wrought tale of love and devotion, of family and faith, and of the complex nature of memory itself--a literary tour de force from one of the most distinguished novelists of our time.


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