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 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.
關於作者:
Ruth Prawer Jhabvala is the author of twelve novels. Her short
fiction has regularly appeared in The New Yorker, and her story
collections include East into Upper East and the critically
acclaimed Out of India. She is a MacArthur Fellow and has been
honored with an Award in Literature from the American Academy of
Arts and Letters. Jhabvala''s screenplays for Merchant-Ivory
Productions have earned two Academy Awards. She recently completed
a screen adaptation of Henry James''s The Golden Bowl. Jhabvala and
her husband divide their time between Delhi and New York.