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Beautiful, spoilt, bored Olivia outrages society in the tiny, suffocating Indian town where her husband is a civil servant, by eloping with an native prince. 50 years later her step-granddaughter travels there to investigate the scandal. This novel won the Booker Prize.
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- Title
- Heat and dust.
- Language
- English
- Authors
- Ruth Prawer Jhabvala
- Publisher
- Abacus
- Released
- 1991
- Format
- Hardcover
- ISBN10
- 0349101760
- ISBN13
- 9780349101767
- Category
- World prose, Contemporary Literary Fiction
- Description
- Beautiful, spoilt, bored Olivia outrages society in the tiny, suffocating Indian town where her husband is a civil servant, by eloping with an native prince. 50 years later her step-granddaughter travels there to investigate the scandal. This novel won the Booker Prize.