A lovesong for India
Subtitle: [tales from East and West]
By: Ruth Prawer Jhabvala ; illustrations by C.S.H. Jhabvala
Contributors: Jhabvala, C. S. H.
Publisher: Little, Brown
Published: 2011
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 276
ISBN-13: 9781408703779; 9781408703540
Subjects: Interpersonal relations; Fiction; Short stories; East Indians; Social life and customs
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." -- Provided by publisher.
Notes: Cover subtitle.
Table of contents: title: India.; title: Innocence --; title: A lovesong for India --; title: Bombay (pre-Mumbai) --; title: School of Oriental Studies -- -- Mostly arts and entertainment.; title: Talent --; title: Critic --; title: The new messiah --; title: Pagans -- -- The last decades.; title: Death of an English hero --; title: The teacher --; title: At the end of the century.