176 pages, includes bibliography. The front of the jacket has a short tear at the head and the pages are beginning to tan, else a clean, unmarked and solid copy, though obviously second hand. "To many of her readers, Ruth Prawer Jhabvala is equated with the silks and spices of Heat and Dust (1975). In appending her husband's even more exotic name, she has been able to overshadow her own alien origins and her Jewish descent is a surprisingly little known fact, especially in India, where it is enough that she is a westerner in Delhi, presuming to comment on Indian country and culture. Nevertheless, perhaps by its very absence, it is central to her writing." (Jewish Women's Archive)