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Heat and Dust

By Ruth Prawer Jhabvala

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| Hardcover | 9780844663357

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Book Description

A profound and powerful novel, winner of the Booker Prize

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 aContinue

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Lovely juxtaposition of India in the seventies and in colonial times. Very vivid descriptions of the cultural landscape and in addition - a few characters that are SO irritating you just wanna smack 'm. I love it when a book does that to me.

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annemarie said on Sep 15, 2006 about the Paperback edition | Add your feedback

a story involved several themes: love , passion, marriage, death etc.
with detailed descriptions of india and the people there.
an english woman who went to India with her husband, in there, she encountered a charming indian prince, and a love triangle started.

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Tsy881 said on Nov 18, 2007 about the Paperback edition | Add your feedback