by Ruth Prawer Jhabvala · Penguin Books Ltd · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780140237047
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«Heat and Dust» is the novel by Ruth Prawer Jhabvala, published by Penguin Books Ltd in paperback (181 pages, in English).
In colonial India of the 1920s, Olivia, wife of an English official, is torn between social conventions and her attraction to an Indian prince. Fifty years later, another woman follows her letters to reconstruct her story. It is a novel of love, desire and clash of cultures, with heat, dust and spirituality as a backdrop.
Originally published by John Murray in 1975, it won the Booker Prize that same year. This Penguin Books paperback edition was published in 1994.
For readers of literary and historical fiction and for those seeking stories set in colonial India and the clash between cultures.
Ruth Prawer Jhabvala was a British and American novelist and screenwriter. She is best known for her collaboration with Merchant Ivory Productions, made up of film director James Ivory and producer Ismail Merchant.
