Booker Prize winner Ruth Prawer Jhabvala’s new collection of stories, A Lovesong for India (Little Brown), reflects her varied experience: born to Polish parents, married to an Indian and working as a novelist and screenwriter.
From an Indian poet who enthrals and dominates the woman who has come to translate her work, to the mother, wife and mistress of a man found mysteriously dead who discover different versions of his past,
Prawer Jhabvala shifts character and location effortlessly. Her psychology is always secure and each tale leaves an aftertaste of your own mortality. – Daily Mail