# A Lovesong For India

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- Book: [A Lovesong For India](https://www.bookquiver.com/ruth-prawer-jhabvala/a-lovesong-for-india) ([A Lovesong For India.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/ruth-prawer-jhabvala/a-lovesong-for-india.md))
- Authors: [Ruth Prawer Jhabvala](https://www.bookquiver.com/ruth-prawer-jhabvala)
- Publisher: abacus
- Medium: ebook
- ISBN: 978-07-4812-900-3
- Published: 2011-10-06
- Language: en_GB
- Binding: E-book

## Description

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.