Heat And Dust

Author: Ruth Prawer Jhabvala

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  • : $25.00 AUD
  • : 9780349000138
  • : Little, Brown Book Group Limited
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  • : September 2011
  • : 197mm X 126mm X 13mm
  • : United Kingdom
  • : 22.99
  • : December 2011
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  • : English
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Description

The beautiful, spoiled and bored Olivia, married to a civil servant, outrages society in the tiny, suffocating town of Satipur by eloping with an Indian prince. Fifty years later, her step-granddaughter goes back to the heat, the dust and the squalor of the bazaars to solve the enigma of Olivia's scandal. 'A superb book. A complex story line, handled with dazzling assurance ...moving and profound. Ruth Prawer Jhabvala has not only written a love story, she has also exposed the soul and nerve ends of a fascinating and compelling country. This is a book of cool, controlled brilliance. It is a jewel to be treasured' THE TIMES.

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* A profound and powerful novel, winner of the Booker Prize in 1975

Author description

Ruth Prawer Jhabvala is an award-winning screen writer and novelist.