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, A LOVESONG FOR INDIA is a delicious assortment of fairytales and parables. About The Author Ruth Prawer Jhabvala divides her time between New York and New Delhi. She has published twelve novels including the Booker Prize-winning HEAT AND DUST and five volumes of short stories. She has written over a dozen screenplays, including HOWARD'S END and A ROOM WITH A VIEW, for both of which she received an Academy Award.