![]() You can understand my disappointment then that I didn’t like Heat and Dust as much as I’d hoped. ![]() Lastly, because Heat and Dust won the Man Booker Prize in 1975, although admittedly that year there was only one other book on the shortlist – Thomas Keneally’s Gossip From the Forest. I’d been looking forward to reading it, not least because Ruth Prawer Jhabvala wrote the screenplays for wonderful films such as A Room With A View and Howards End, and a personal favourite of mine, The Remains of the Day. Heat and Dust is the book selected from my Classics Club list as a result of the latest Classics Club Spin #18. *links provided for convenience, not as part of any affiliate programme Published: 1 st January 1983 Genre: FictionĪ.uk ǀ ǀ .uk (supporting UK bookshops) ![]() ![]() Heat and Dust is set in India, the story of Olivia, beautiful, spoilt, bored who outrages society in the tiny, suffocating town where her husband is a civil servant, by eloping with an Indian prince – and of her step-granddaughter who, 50 years later, goes back to the heat, the dust and the squalor of the Satipur bazaars to solve the enigma of Olivia’s scandal.įormat: Paperback (181 pp.) Publisher: Futura ![]()
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