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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.
- Ruth Prawer Jhabvala
- 1975
Jan 1, 1975 · 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.
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- Ruth Prawer Jhabvala
Apr 16, 1999 · 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.
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- Ruth Prawer Jhabvala
- 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.
- Ruth Prawer Jhabvala
- Paperback
Feb 1, 2016 · 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.
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- Ruth Prawer Jhabvala
Ruth Prawer Jhabvala. Harper & Row, 1976 - Fiction - 181 pages. Set in India, HEAT AND DUST is the story of Olivia, a beautiful, spoiled, bored English colonial wife in the...
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Apr 16, 1999 · 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.