Heat and dust

Heat and dust

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 step-granddaughter goes back to the heat, the dust and the squalor of the bazaars to solve the enigma of Olivia'...

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Main Author: Jhabvala, Ruth Prawer 1927- (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: London Abacus 1975 [2011]
Subjects:
British > Fiction > India
Women > Fiction > Social conditions > India
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