Heat and Dust – Ruth Prawer Jhabvala

Heat and Dust – Ruth Prawer Jhabvala (Old/Bargain)|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.