Heat and Dust - Hardcover

Heat and Dust

Zustand: Very Good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Very Good+. First edition. Stated First Edition New York: Harper & Row, 1976. Winner medallion of the 1975 Booker Award, on front cover. Illustrated enpapers 181pp.British Raj in the 1920s.Goodreads: "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." wited out name on the ffep otherwise unmarked. Top edge somewhat foxed. Not price clipped $7.95. Artikel-Nr. 22560

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