Socialite Evenings, by bestselling Indian author Shobhaa De (Bollywood Nights), explores the lives of Mumbai's elite through the eyes of Karina. Karina has left behind her middle-class past for the upper echelons of society and now seeks to escape her boredom by writing her memoirs. The summary says: "Breaking through the fake veneers of Mumbai's most powerful, Karuna's story exposes a world of pretension and deceit. In doing so she rediscovers the woman who was swept away by it all. Behind her glamorous persona emerges a woman who had to lose everything to have it all." Socialite Evenings, De's first novel, was first released in 1989.

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