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Heat and Dust

By: Ruth Prawer Jhabvala
Narrated by: Julie Christie
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In 1923 the beautiful, spoiled, and bored Olivia, married to Douglas and his career in the Indian Civil Service, outrages the English and Indian communities by eloping with an Indian prince. Fifty years later, Douglas’s granddaughter, armed with Olivia’s letters, goes back to the heat and dust and squalor of the bazaars to find out for herself how Olivia could have been so affected by India that she turned her back on her own country.
©1975 Ruth Prawer Jhabvala (P)2014 Audible, Inc.
Fiction Historical Fiction Literary Fiction Hinduism
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All the Sights & Smells of India re-created

I always enjoy books set in India & found the two periods ie 1920s & present day, worked well & convincingly. Good characterisations too which made it a very good ‘read’

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