num_pages: 192
description: Booker prize winning novel of romance and intrigue in India.The 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.
language: English
title: Heat and Dust
titlecomplete: Heat and Dust
genres: Historical, Literature, Classics, Literary Fiction, Novels, India, Indian Literature, Asia, Historical Fiction, Fiction
ratings_count: 8000
awards: awardedAt: 157795200000
name: Booker Prize
publisher: Hodder Pb