Heat And Dust.

Title Heat And Dust.
Names Jhabvala, Ruth Prawer.
Book Number BR002984
Title Status In Process
Medium Braille
Annotation An English girl in India attempts to reconstruct the story of her grandfather's first wife who had eloped with an Indian prince in 1923. The novel contrasts contemporary India with the past and explores how far a stranger can actually penetrate the culture of this complex country.
Local Subject Not Available for Automatic Selection - NAS
Historical Fiction - Foreign Setting - HIFF
Romance - Serious - ROMS
Family stories - FAM
Gentle, Nostalgic Fiction - GENT
Books, Plays, Stories made into Films, TV Movies - TVM
British Fiction (pre 1945) - 823
British & Old English literature - 820
LC Subject India - History - British occupation, 1765-1947 - Fiction
British - India - Fiction
Married women - Fiction
India - Kings and rulers - Fiction
Length 2 v. of press braille ; 23 x 23 cm.
Publication Info Peterborough : Royal National Institute for the Blind.
Original Publication Reproduced from: 1st U.S. ed. London : J. Murray, 1976, c1975.
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