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.
- ISBN10 1408703548
- ISBN13 9781408703540
- Publish Date 6 October 2011
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 31 March 2016
- Publish Country GB
- Publisher Little, Brown Book Group
- Imprint Little, Brown
- Format Paperback (UK Trade)
- Pages 288
- Language English