Title: Heat and Dust
Author: Ruth Prawer Jhabvala
Publisher: Counterpoint
Year: 1975?/1999 (reprint)
192 pages
Somewhat mannered, somewhat overwritten, and perhaps with too much parallelism, yet I still enjoyed this exercise in comparing and contrasting two women's lives in India across generations. The unnamed contemporary woman's experience seems like a somewhat tawdry version of Olivia's, but I suppose it is progress of a sort for exoticism to yield to the prosaic, and for one woman's Nawab to be another woman's anxious civil servant.
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