<DIV>In this, her first novel in more than nine years, in a career studded with distinctive and unique accomplishments, award-winning Ruth Prawer Jhabvala has written her most unusual book. <i>My Nine Lives, "Chapters of a Possible Past,"</i> as the subtitle declares, is comprised of nine vignettes that lead from London to Delhi, from Hollywood to New York?all linked to portray a rich life, filled with spiritual searching.<BR><BR>After seventeen books, Ruth Prawer Jhabvala takes herself on as a subject, exploring the lives she may have or may have wished to live. <i>My Nine Lives</i> is a moving and intriguing book of truth, invention, history, and memory.</div>