Heat And Dust by Ruth Prawer Jhabvala #foliosociety the internet and ourselves

the internet and ourselves

’Nineteen-year-old Merowdis Scott is an unusual girl

ISBN: 9780571379248 | Extent: 400 pages

Searing and tender

The result is both unexpected and spectacular

Heat And Dust by Ruth Prawer Jhabvala #foliosociety the internet and ourselvesThe 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. 'A superb book. A complex story line, handled with dazzling assurance moving and profound. Ruth Prawer Jhabvala has not only written a love story,