false http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1240424074m/4820102.jpg 3853 25 A profound and powerful novel, winner of the Booker Prize <P>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. 3224101 1975 Heat and Dust total:281|5:45|4:107|3:84|2:34|1:11| 281 984 444 35 3 1 false false Tue Nov 25 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Wed Nov 19 06:10:43 -0800 2008 Tue Nov 25 16:38:34 -0800 2008 1 Ruth Prawer Jhabvala was the screenwriter of Merchant/Ivory's A Room with a View, which is the best adaptation I've ever seen. Any woman who can bring out all of the humor of the novel, show us the real emotions of the characters underneath, and...more...]]> 4 1 false false Mon Jun 23 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Fri Feb 29 12:12:35 -0800 2008 Mon Jun 23 12:49:47 -0700 2008 1975 Booker

An excellent, quick read that jumps back and forth in time between 1923 and 1970s India, concentrating on the lives of the wife of a British official in 1923 and her husband's granddaughter in the 1970s.]]> 5 1 false false Mon Oct 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007 Thu Oct 11 08:07:36 -0700 2007 Tue Oct 23 13:46:18 -0700 2007 4 0 false false Fri Apr 10 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Sun Apr 05 00:56:34 -0700 2009 Thu Apr 09 23:33:02 -0700 2009
"Maji sat down under a tree and took the old woman's head in her lap. She stroked it with her thick peasant hands and looked down into the dying face. Suddenly the old woman smiled, her toothless mouth open...more...]]> 5 1 false false Mon Sep 01 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Tue Jul 22 02:02:16 -0700 2008 Wed Oct 01 20:15:33 -0700 2008 4 0 false false Mon Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2007 Sun Nov 30 15:58:56 -0800 2008 Sun Nov 30 16:01:05 -0800 2008 1 more...]]> 2 0 false false Thu Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Sat Jan 31 16:34:44 -0800 2009 Sat Jan 31 16:36:56 -0800 2009 1 0 false false Sun Mar 08 15:11:23 -0700 2009 Sun Mar 08 15:14:41 -0700 2009 4 0 false false Tue Jul 07 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Tue Jul 07 12:20:17 -0700 2009 Tue Jul 07 12:21:34 -0700 2009 ]]> 3 0 false false Sat Apr 11 18:27:40 -0700 2009 Sat Apr 11 18:28:53 -0700 2009 0 0 false false Mon Mar 30 07:27:39 -0700 2009 Mon Mar 30 07:27:39 -0700 2009 1 0 false false Sun Jun 22 21:22:43 -0700 2008 Sun Jun 22 21:23:20 -0700 2008
No one in the group liked it. We all agreed that the characters were poorly developed and the main characters w...more...]]> 0 0 false false Sun Apr 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007 Tue Jan 22 20:04:30 -0800 2008 Tue Jan 22 20:08:40 -0800 2008 more...]]> 4 0 false false Wed Nov 01 00:00:00 -0800 2006 Fri Mar 16 18:14:04 -0700 2007 Fri Mar 16 18:18:48 -0700 2007
...need I sa...]]> 3 0 false false Thu Apr 17 20:56:15 -0700 2008 Thu Apr 17 20:56:15 -0700 2008 4 0 false false Tue Nov 06 12:21:14 -0800 2007 Tue Oct 30 10:10:16 -0700 2007 Tue Nov 06 11:52:26 -0800 2007 4 0 false false Mon Oct 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007 Mon Nov 26 20:30:42 -0800 2007 Mon Nov 26 20:32:46 -0800 2007 Well done.]]> 4 0 false false Sat Dec 01 00:00:00 -0800 2007 Tue Dec 11 09:22:30 -0800 2007 Sat Dec 29 06:24:40 -0800 2007 0 0 false false Mon Dec 15 11:43:29 -0800 2008 Mon Jan 12 05:43:11 -0800 2009 ]]> 4 0 false false Tue Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Tue Aug 26 11:18:57 -0700 2008 Wed Jan 21 06:16:48 -0800 2009 http://www.goodreads.com/book_link/follow/8?book_id=4820102