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1 de ene. de 2001 · 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.
Heat and Dust (1975) is a novel by Ruth Prawer Jhabvala that won the Booker Prize in 1975. The book was also ranked by The Telegraph in 2014 as one of the 10 all-time greatest Asian novels. [1]
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.
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...
Ruth Prawer Jhabvala. Simon & Schuster, 1975 - British - 181 pages. Set in India, HEAT AND DUST is the story of Olivia, a beautiful, spoiled, bored English colonial wife in...
9 de ene. de 2021 · Heat and dust by Jhabvala, Ruth Prawer, 1927-Publication date 1994 Publisher Harmondsworth : Penguin Collection internetarchivebooks; inlibrary; printdisabled Contributor Internet Archive Language English Item Size 544.1M . 181p. ; 20 cm Originally published, John Murray, 1975
Written by Ruth Prawer Jhabvala In 1920s India, Olivia - a beautiful, spoiled and deeply bored English colonial wife - is drawn inexorably to a minor Indian prince. Eventually she outrages the tiny, suffocating town where her husband is a civil servant when she elopes with the captivating Nawab.
