- Man Booker Prize Winner, Kings and rulers, Married women, India in fiction
Set in India, HEAT AND DUST is the story of Olivia, a beautiful, spoiled, bored English colonial wife in the 1920s who is drawn inexorably into the spell of the Nawab, a minor Indian prince deeply involved in plots and intrigues.
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Grave, prestige, meticulous and earnest.
- gravecomic
- unpretentiousprestige
- rawmeticulous
- earnestironic
- character-ledplot-driven
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- Author
- Ruth Prawer Jhabvala
- First published
- 1975
- Pages
- 181
- Publisher
- Penguin, Harper & Row, Chivers Audio Books
- Editions
- 14
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9781582430157
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“Shortly after Olivia went away with the Nawab, Beth Crawford returned from Simla.”
Ruth Prawer Jhabvala, CBE was a German-born British and American Booker prize-winning novelist, short story writer and two-time Academy Award-winning screenwriter. Source: wikipedia
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