A Stronger Climate. by JHABVALA, Ruth Prawer - 1968: Nine Stories.

London: John Murray,, 1968. First edition, first impression, this the file copy of the Canadian distributor Longmans, with their stamp to the front free endpaper. Jhabvala was born to German Jewish parents in 1927, the family fleeing to London prior to the Second World War. For 24 years from 1951 she lived in India, marrying an Indian architect and writing novels that reflected her "insider-outsider" status and her ambivalence toward Indian society. She also partnered with Merchant Ivory, adding 23 screenplays to her achievements as a novelist and short story writer, and remaining the only person to have won both the Booker and an Oscar. Octavo. Original yellow boards, titles to spine in black. With dust jacket. A fine copy, in very good dust jacket indeed, unclipped, trivial rubbing to spine panel ends and tips, faint sunning to spine panel, a little light soiling, else bright.