A novel of mid-life in MANHATTAN
A Lovesong for India
Location(s): Delhi, India
Genre(s): Short Stories
Era(s): Modern
Don’t be deceived by the title of this collection of stories. Ruth Prawer Jhabvala – the only writer to have won both the Booker and two Oscars – is a post-Raj realist, not a romantic. Not for the first time, she anatomises fraught relationships between parents and children, exploding the myth that Eastern spirituality confers harmony on family life: a decent Delhi couple are brought low by their crooked son: a man is emasculated by his manipulative mother. Often, she creates characters so monstrous and bizarre that their stories are like fairy tales, unfolding with dark humour and an untertow of melancholy. (Maggie Fergusson, Intelligent Life)
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