Merchant Ivory Productions.
Pub. Date
[2006]
Description
Set in 1930's Shanghai, a grief-stricken blind American diplomat shuts out the world and sets about creating the bar of his dreams with the help of a Japanese spy and a refugee Russian countess turned taxi dancer to support her young daughter and unappreciative in-laws. As civil war and the advancing Japanese army begins their invasion, the diplomat is forced to face his past and the reality of what's going on around him.
Pub. Date
2002
Description
The story of Ganesh, a young, aspiring author whose unexpected talents as a healer bring him local fame and enable him to realize his ambitions as a writer. But he also realizes his limitations when his reputation as the legendary "mystic masseur" propels him to national renown and draws him far from his roots and his true self. Set amidst the large and prosperous Indian community in mid-20th century Trinidad.
7) Howards End
Pub. Date
[1999], p1992
Description
In Edwardian England, two well educated sisters, each find different ways to deal with the constrainsts of society.
8) Howards End
Pub. Date
p2016
Description
A businessman thwarts his wife's bequest of an estate to another woman.
9) Le divorce
Pub. Date
[2004]
Description
When Isabel Walker receives word that her pregnant stepsister Rosy has been left by her philandering French husband, artist Charles-Henri de Persand, Isabel travels to Paris to offer her help and moral support.
10) Le divorce
Pub. Date
[2004]
Description
Isabel Walker travels to Paris to visit her pregnant stepsister Roxy, by chance arriving on the same day that Roxy's husband Charles-Henri leaves the marriage, apparently for another woman. As Isabel stays to offer help and support, the two young women start living it up with the locals and American expatriates, and Isabel finds herself being wooed by an older French man- who happens to be related to Roxy's ex-husband.
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