Socialite Evenings Author:Shobha De Shobha De's first novel created a huge scandal in India. Overnight she became one of the most notorious and best read novelists in the country. — In Socialite Evenings, Shobha De faithfully and shockingly records the lives of the people she encounters in everyday life. In doing so she shatters more than a few illusions: about love, about... more » sex, about men and especially about women.
Karuna -- a beautiful young model turned prominent Bombay socialite. She knows what she wants and she learns how to take it -- but can she be happy too?
Anjali -- desperate to be loved and ravished by men, who first introduces Karuna to the high life but is herself fast slipping down the spiral of decadence and disappointment.
Ritu -- gorgeous and vivacious. She has perfected flirting into a fine art but who will want her now that she has gone too far?
"Ms. De shocks India and much of its literary set, like no other writer today." --The New York Times« less