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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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Book category Books in English Fiction & related items Fiction: special features Short stories

• Full title: Lovesong For India
• Subtitle: Tales from East and West
• Author: Ruth Prawer Jhabvala
• Language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 288
• EAN: 9781408705148
• ISBN: 1408705141
• ID: 01341891
• Publisher: Little, Brown Book Group
• Weight: 230 g
• Dimensions: 197 × 128 × 19 mm
• Date of publishing: 04. July 2013

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