A Lovesong for India: Tales from East and West

Ruth Prawer Jhabvala

Little Brown

288 pages, R495

A wedding is planned between two innocents at a crumbling mansion in a Hudson Valley estate; a mixed race couple in their declining years in New Delhi suffers for their son’s corrupt business practices; an ageing Indian poetess exerts an artistic and sexual dominion over her English translator. Set in India and the US, A Lovesong for India is a new collection of stories from the author of Heat and Dust.