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Scandal in India, generations apart: Heat, dust, and forbidden love.
Heat And Dust
$26.27
- Paperback
192 pages
- Release Date
29 November 2011
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Summary
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 …
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780349000138 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0349000131 |
| Author: | Ruth Prawer Jhabvala |
| Publisher: | Little, Brown Book Group |
| Imprint: | Abacus |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 192 |
| Release Date: | 29 November 2011 |
| Weight: | 140g |
| Dimensions: | 197mm x 130mm x 14mm |
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About The Author
Ruth Prawer Jhabvala
Ruth Prawer Jhabvala is an award-winning screenwriter and novelist.
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