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Socialite Evenings
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Socialite Evenings is an English language novel.It is Shobha De's first novel. It describes a backdrop of Bombay high society and the lives of bored, rich housewives trapped in loveless marriages and engaging in ill-fated extramarital affairs, smug selfish husbands who use their wives more for social respectability than for love, fashionable parties, false spiritual leaders, and a portrait of the general moral, spiritual and intellectual bankruptcy and decadence of the Mumbai Elite who have traded in their traditional culture for near total Westernization and the discarding of any discernible values other than materialism.
Novel Detail
| Language: | English |
| Publisher: | Penguin Books |
| Author: | Shobha De |
| Genre: | novel |
| Year: | 1989 |
| Characters: | Karuna |
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