Copyright © 1987 by Ruth Prawer Jhabvala

First Counterpoint paperback edition 1999

This book is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, and incidents either are products of the author’s imagination or are used fictiously. Any resemblance to actual events or persons, living or dead, is entirely coincidental.

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Library of Congress Cataloging in Publication Data

Jhabvala, Ruth Prawer, 1927–

    Three continents.

    I. Title

PR9499.3J5T47                 1987          823          87-7880

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