A Lovesong For India: Tales from East and West

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Taking us from a sweltering Indian rooftop at night to the marble halls of an ageing Bollywood star's palace, this is a new collection of short stories from Ruth Prawer Jhabvala. A wedding is planned between two innocents at a crumbling mansion of a grand Hudson Valley estate, while among the white-socked convent girls of post-colonial New Delhi a mixed-race couple contemplate their son's alienation and the failure of hope. A young English girl infiltrates Fifth Avenue theatrical royalty and a lovely Broadway starlet exacts a clever, protracted revenge against her nemesis. Speaking of mortality and family rivalry, of the transfer of power from old to young, of love and the loss of innocence, this is a delicious assortment of fairytales and parables.

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A writer of genius . . . a master storyteller * Sunday Times *

Author Bio

Ruth Prawer Jhabvala has won the Man Booker Prize for Heat and Dust, as well as two Oscars for screenwriting (for A Room with a View and Howard's End)