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.
ISBN: | 9781408705148 |
Publication date: | 4th July 2013 |
Author: | Ruth Prawer Jhabvala |
Publisher: | Abacus an imprint of Little, Brown Book Group |
Format: | Paperback |
Pagination: | 288 pages |
Genres: |
Modern and Contemporary Fiction Shorter Reads |