Category: Adults, Classic, Historical Fiction, Romance
Language: EnglishKeywords: British India India Inter-racial Romance
Written by Ruth Prawer Jhabvala
Read by Julie Christie
Format: M4B
Bitrate: 128 Kbps
Unabridged
In 1923 the beautiful, spoiled, and bored Olivia, married to Douglas and his career in the Indian Civil Service, outrages the English and Indian communities by eloping with an Indian prince. Fifty years later, Douglas’s granddaughter, armed with Olivia’s letters, goes back to the heat and dust and squalor of the bazaars to find out for herself how Olivia could have been so affected by India that she turned her back on her own country.
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https://archive.org/details/heat-and-dust
In 1923 the beautiful, spoiled, and bored Olivia, married to Douglas and his career in the Indian Civil Service, outrages the English and Indian communities by eloping with an Indian prince. Fifty years later, Douglas’s granddaughter, armed with Olivia’s letters, goes back to the heat and dust and squalor of the bazaars to find out for herself how Olivia could have been so affected by India that she turned her back on her own country.
ALTERNATIVE LINK
https://archive.org/details/heat-and-dust