Рут Правер Джабвала — книжные серии

Heat and dust - these simple, terrible words describe the Indian summer. Year after year, endlessly, it is the same. And everyone who experiences this heat and dust is changed for ever. We often say, in these modern times, that sexual relationships have changed, for better or for worse. But in this book we see that things have not changed. Whether we look back sixty years, or a hundred and sixty, we see that it is not things that change, but people. And, in the heat and dust of an Indian summer, even people are not very different after all.

"The past is a foreign country", said a famous writer, "they do things differently there". We know that this is true. Life was surely very different for our grandparents. And yet, as the proverb says, history repeats itself. Can these both be true? And, if they are, what is it that changes, and what remains the same?
This is the story of two women: a woman in the present, who is following in the steps of a woman in the past. They both come to India, and yet they both visit a different India, separated by fifty years. They both come from England, but it is a different England. One woman is married and dependent, the other is single and independent. Their lives and their behaviour are different but, in the heat and dust of the Indian summer, all differences melt away and history seems to repeat itself.

В книгу вошли рассказы шести английских писателей разных поколений - от много печатавшейся в России Мюриэл Спарк до пока неизвестных у нас Рут Джабвалы и Джонатана Уилсона. Их рассказы о жизни английских евреев в двадцатом веке отличает тонкий психологический анализ и блестящий юмор, еврейский и английский одновременно. Составитель Л.Беспалова. Перевод с английского…