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Heat and dust Jhabvala, Ruth Prawer

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: London Abacus 2011 Description: 181 pISBN:
  • 9780349000138
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 823
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 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 (http://www.amazon.com/Heat-and-Dust/dp/0349000131)
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Book Book Ahmedabad Fiction 823 J4H3 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available 175805
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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 (http://www.amazon.com/Heat-and-Dust/dp/0349000131)

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