Psychological novel • British literature

Žega i prašina

Ruth Prawer Jhabvala

Probably the best novel about the great Indian melting pot since Kim. The book received the Booksellers Award in Great Britain, and a movie was made about it.

The novel is set in India. It is a story about the beautiful and spoiled Olivia, who is bored in a small, stuffy town where her husband works in the civil service, and who shocks the society of that time by leaving her husband for an Indian prince, and about her great-granddaughter by her husband who returns to the heat fifty years later , the dust and dirt of the Satipur bazaar to solve the riddle of Olivia's scandal.

Original title

Heat and dust

Translation

Nada Horvat

Editor

Dubravko Marijanović

Graphics design

Mario Pavlović

Dimensions

20 x 14 cm

Pages

155

Publisher

Sipar, Zagreb, 2002.

Latin alphabet. Paperback.

Language: Croatian.

ISBN

9-53-641525-9

Multiple copies are available

Copy number 1

Condition:New

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Condition:Unused

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Condition:Unused

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