Description
Product ID: | 9780349000138 |
Product Form: | Paperback / softback |
Country of Manufacture: | GB |
Title: | Heat And Dust |
Authors: | Author: Ruth Prawer Jhabvala |
Page Count: | 192 |
Subjects: | Modern and contemporary fiction: general and literary, Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945) |
Description: | Select Guide Rating * A profound and powerful novel, winner of the Booker Prize in 1975 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''s scandal. |
Imprint Name: | Abacus |
Publisher Name: | Little, Brown Book Group |
Country of Publication: | GB |
Publishing Date: | 2011-10-06 |