A Lovesong For IndiaRuth Prawer JhabvalaLabel: AbacusDescription: 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.
