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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. Longing for... read more

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Shortly after Olivia went away with the Nawab, Beth Crawford returned from Simla.

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  1. Ruth Prawer Jhabvala (Author)
 

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