Lovesong For India

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 alienat...