A Lovesong For India
Tales from East and West
$21.32
- Paperback
288 pages
- Release Date
24 September 2013
Summary
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 roya…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781408705148 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1408705141 |
| Author: | Ruth Prawer Jhabvala |
| Publisher: | Little, Brown Book Group |
| Imprint: | Abacus |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 288 |
| Release Date: | 24 September 2013 |
| Weight: | 232g |
| Dimensions: | 132mm x 200mm x 20mm |
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A writer of genius … a master storyteller– Sunday Times
A writer of genius … a master storyteller * Sunday Times *
About The Author
Ruth Prawer Jhabvala
Ruth Prawer Jhabvala has won the Man Booker Prize for Heat and Dust, as well as two Oscars for screenwriting (for A Room with a View and Howard’s End).
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