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Heat and Dust (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781582430157)
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xThe Booker Prize-winning novel--intertwining the narratives of two women, past and present, and their relationships to India--from the novelist, short story writer, and two-time Academy Award-winning screenwriter Ruth Prawer Jhabvala
Partly set in colonial India during the 1920s, Heat and Dust tells the story of Olivia, a beautiful woman suffocated by the propriety and social constraints of her position as the wife of an important English civil servant. Longing for passion and independence, Olivia is drawn into the spell of the Nawab, a minor Indian prince deeply involved in gang raids and criminal plots. She is intrigued by the Nawab's charm and aggressive courtship, and soon begins to spend most of her days in his company. But then she becomes pregnant, and unsure of the child's paternity, she is faced with a wrenching dilemma. Her reaction to the crisis humiliates her husband and outrages the British community, breeding a scandal that lives in collective memory long after her death.
Author: Ruth Prawer Jhabvala
ISBN-10: 1582430152
ISBN-13: 9781582430157
Publisher: Counterpoint LLC
Language: English
Published: 04/16/1999
Pages: 190
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.50lbs
Size: 8.20h x 5.60w x 0.50d
Review Citation(s):
New York Times 05/30/1999 pg. 24
Partly set in colonial India during the 1920s, Heat and Dust tells the story of Olivia, a beautiful woman suffocated by the propriety and social constraints of her position as the wife of an important English civil servant. Longing for passion and independence, Olivia is drawn into the spell of the Nawab, a minor Indian prince deeply involved in gang raids and criminal plots. She is intrigued by the Nawab's charm and aggressive courtship, and soon begins to spend most of her days in his company. But then she becomes pregnant, and unsure of the child's paternity, she is faced with a wrenching dilemma. Her reaction to the crisis humiliates her husband and outrages the British community, breeding a scandal that lives in collective memory long after her death.
Author: Ruth Prawer Jhabvala
ISBN-10: 1582430152
ISBN-13: 9781582430157
Publisher: Counterpoint LLC
Language: English
Published: 04/16/1999
Pages: 190
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.50lbs
Size: 8.20h x 5.60w x 0.50d
Review Citation(s):
New York Times 05/30/1999 pg. 24
By Ruth Prawer Jhabvala
xRuth Prawer Jhabvala is the author of nineteen books. She is the recipient of Booker Prize, a MacArthur fellowship, and has been honored with an Award in Literature from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. Jhabvala's screenplays for Merchant-Ivory Productions have earned two Academy Awards. Jhabvala and her husband divide their time between Delhi and New York.
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