Heat and Dust

Heat and Dust

1st Counterpoint pbk Edition

Paperback (16 Apr 1999)

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Publisher's Synopsis

The Booker Prize-winning novel-intertwining the narratives of two women, past and present, and their relationships to India-from the novelist, short story writer, and two-time Academy Award-winning screenwriter Ruth Prawer Jhabvala



Partly 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 passion and independence, Olivia is drawn into the spell of the Nawab, a minor Indian prince deeply involved in gang raids and criminal plots. She is intrigued by the Nawab's charm and aggressive courtship, and soon begins to spend most of her days in his company. But then she becomes pregnant, and unsure of the child's paternity, she is faced with a wrenching dilemma. Her reaction to the crisis humiliates her husband and outrages the British community, breeding a scandal that lives in collective memory long after her death.

Book information

ISBN: 9781582430157
Publisher: Catapult
Imprint: Counterpoint Press
Pub date:
Edition: 1st Counterpoint pbk Edition
DEWEY: 823
DEWEY edition: 21
Language: English
Number of pages: 181
Weight: 500g
Height: 220mm
Width: 149mm
Spine width: 11mm