TY  - BOOK
AU  - Jhabvala, Ruth Prawer
TI  - Heat and dust
SN  - 9780349000138
U1  - 823  
PY  - 2011///
CY  - London
PB  - Abacus
KW  - Best sellers - British - India - Fiction
KW  - India - History - British occupation, 1765-1947 - Fiction
KW  - Married women - Fiction
N1  - Winner of the booker prize
N2  - 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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