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‘[Jhabvala] has taken the immigrant experience and personalised it in a wonderfully unique way’
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'These stories ... show an admired writer ... in total possession of her creative powers.' (Literary Review )
‘Savour this fine collection of stories... the sort of writing that marks out a genuine mistress of her craft’ (The Sunday Times )
‘Ruth Prawer Jhabvala is a wonderful natural storyteller ... utterly compelling. It is a delight, from first page to last’ (The Scotsman )
'She creates a scenario so powerfully that you are there with her in the spicy heat of India' (The Daily Telegraph )
‘Each work has her hallmark of balance, subtlety, wry humor and beauty’ (New York Times Book Review )
'Combined, these tales form an oblique portrait of the inner life of the author.' (Sunday Times )
'The most prominent theme is a string of inadvisable affairs with irascible, unreliable older men ...perhaps it'll be 10th time lucky?' (The Guardian )
'One is dazzled but tantalised by veiled fragments of a life that might have been.' (Guardian )
'Imagining what life might have been ...this is fiction that comes as close to autobiography as the author dares.' - Emma Hagestadt. (The Independent )
'By the end, while she may not fully have revealed herself, she has shown the grand sweep of life.' - Elena Seymenliyska. (The Daily Telegraph )
‘Savour this fine collection of stories... the sort of writing that marks out a genuine mistress of her craft’ (The Sunday Times )
‘Ruth Prawer Jhabvala is a wonderful natural storyteller ... utterly compelling. It is a delight, from first page to last’ (The Scotsman )
'She creates a scenario so powerfully that you are there with her in the spicy heat of India' (The Daily Telegraph )
‘Each work has her hallmark of balance, subtlety, wry humor and beauty’ (New York Times Book Review )
'Combined, these tales form an oblique portrait of the inner life of the author.' (Sunday Times )
'The most prominent theme is a string of inadvisable affairs with irascible, unreliable older men ...perhaps it'll be 10th time lucky?' (The Guardian )
'One is dazzled but tantalised by veiled fragments of a life that might have been.' (Guardian )
'Imagining what life might have been ...this is fiction that comes as close to autobiography as the author dares.' - Emma Hagestadt. (The Independent )
'By the end, while she may not fully have revealed herself, she has shown the grand sweep of life.' - Elena Seymenliyska. (The Daily Telegraph )
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