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Ruth Prawer Jhabvala

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I am a central European with an English education and a deplorable tendency to constant self-analysis. I am irritable and have weak nerves.

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The older books were quite light-hearted. But I think most of my novels do end on a deep note of pessimism. Shadows seem to be closing in. The final conclusion isn’t that life is wonderful and everything is bright and cheery and in the garden.

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I only really woke up in India. It was my first experience of plenty, strangely enough, because everything in England was rationed. I loved sweets, but you couldn’t get them; then there was this marvelous mitthai – I went crazy.

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May 27, 2024

I only really woke up in India. It was my first experience of plenty, strangely enough, because everything in England was rationed. I loved sweets, but you couldn’t get them; then there was this marvelous mitthai – I went crazy.

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May 27, 2024

The older books were quite light-hearted. But I think most of my novels do end on a deep note of pessimism. Shadows seem to be closing in. The final conclusion isn’t that life is wonderful and everything is bright and cheery and in the garden.

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