A Lovesong for India (35 page)

Authors: Ruth Prawer Jhabvala

BOOK: A Lovesong for India

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As well as her numerous novels and short stories, in collaboration with James Ivory and Ismail Merchant, Ruth Prawer Jhabvala has written scripts for film and television, including
A Room with a View
and
Howards End
, both of which are Academy Award winners. She won the Booker Prize for
Heat and Dust
in 1975, the Neil Gunn International Fellowship in 1978, the MacArthur Foundation Fellowship in 1984 and was made a CBE in the 1998 New Year’s Honours List.

This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, and incidents are the product of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously. Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, is entirely coincidental.

“Innocence” and “The Teacher” first appeared in the
New Yorker
“Talent” first appeared in
Sisters: An Anthology
(Paris Press, 2009)
Illustrations © C. S. H. Jhabvala
The moral right of the author has been asserted.

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Jhabvala, Ruth Prawer, 1927-
A lovesong for India : tales from the East and West / Ruth Prawer Jhabvala.
p. cm.

eISBN : 978-1-619-02035-1

I. Title.
PR9499.3.J5L68 2012
823’.914—dc23
2011039135

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