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    A Lovesong for India

    By Ruth Prawer Jhabvala

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    From the Booker Prize-winning novelist and screenwriter of Howard’s End: “Cinematic” and “exquisite” stories of longing, loss, and redemption (Publishers Weekly).
     
    In this expansive story collection, Ruth Prawer Jhabvala, author of Heat and Dust and the screenplays for The Remains of the Day and A Room with a View, continues her lifelong meditation on East and West. Set in India, England, and New York City, A Lovesong for India reveals what unites us across oceans, cultures, and lifetimes.
     
    In “Innocence,” an older couple, whose social standing is marred by a decades-old scandal, rent out rooms in their Delhi home for both companionship and income. The couple becomes deeply invested in the lives of their two tenants, but with the addition of a third renter—a beautiful and provocative woman from India—tensions in the household push the story to its feverish conclusion.
     
    “Talent” finds Jhabvala in New York City reflecting on the friction between family and societal expectations. Magda is a talent scout whose work is her entire life until she meets Ellie, a singer whose immense ability and unguarded personality captivate Magda. Soon Ellie is integrated into Magda’s extended family—for better or worse.
     
    This remarkable collection is the hallmark of Jhabvala’s celebrated career and a testament to her “balance, subtlety, wry humor, and beauty” (The New York Times).
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherOpen Road Integrated Media
    Release dateFeb 1, 2012
    ISBN9781619020351
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    • 4/5
      Prawer Jhabvala has written an interesting and sometimes humorous collection of stories of restless often rootless people. Settings include both her home countries of the US and India. Even for a person who normally doesn’t choose short stories, I found them interesting. The stories are often open-ended, which I find frustrating, but in the end this allows the reader to participate in the writing by imagining the ending as they want.