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If you see a Google Drive link instead of source url, means that the file witch you will get after approval is just a summary of original book or the file has been already removed. Hope you find it, although I doubt you will run Boadicea wrote: "Great review, Daren, reminds to try and see if I still have a copy or not?

Hope you find it, although I doubt you will run out of other reading options in the meantime! Boadicea Yes, I know, far too many temptations exist, including rabbit holes and detours!

However, I really want to amalgamate a few Paul Scott and Kipling wor Yes, I know, far too many temptations exist, including rabbit holes and detours! However, I really want to amalgamate a few Paul Scott and Kipling works so I can do a great India binge which won't happen this year. Hopefully next An eloquent and beautifully poised novella comparing and contrasting the experiences of two English women in India.

The unnamed narrator travels to India to investigate and tell the story of her father's first wife, a bored housewife who has an affair with a local prince. Their two stories are alternated and have many parallels, as well as contrasts between colonial and independent India. It is easy to see why this book won the Booker prize. View all 5 comments. Oct 04, John rated it liked it Shelves: man-booker-prize-winners. A somewhat dissatisfying book with the ending. An unnamed Step Great Grand daughter goes to India to find out about her mysterious and scandalous Grandmother Olivia.

The story switches between and the s. Olivia is a spoilt woman married to Douglas a work obsessed civil servant managing a part of India. She becomes embroiled through a friendship with Harry an English companion of the Nawab a local ruler. The story documents her seduction by the Nawab while in parallel her granddaughter e A somewhat dissatisfying book with the ending.

The story documents her seduction by the Nawab while in parallel her granddaughter emulates her behavior. Its an odd story. Colonialism and imperialism laid bare in its obscenity with caricatures of the English. Mysticism, politics and the caste system are woven into the story. Overall a good novella but not a great one, surprised it won a Booker. This short novel tells the story of two women, in two different era's. First there is the spoiled and unhappy Oliva, in colonial India, who outrages society by having an affair with the local Nawab.

Olivia's husband Douglas divorces her and remarries. In the 's, his granddaughter arrives in India to revisit the places her family once lived and to try to discover the truth about the scandal that surrounded her grandfather's first wife. There are a great deal of parallel events that occur This short novel tells the story of two women, in two different era's. There are a great deal of parallel events that occur during this novel; allowing you to see how attitudes have changed over the years.

Olivia is a young woman who is simply bored with the life she finds herself leading - with her respectable neighbours, dull dinner parties and absent husband. The Nawab is looked upon with some contempt by Douglas and the other men in the English community. Living apart from his wife, dissatisfied and also bored, events throw him and Olivia together with disastrous consequences. Although this is a short read, it really packs an emotional punch and it is beautifully written.

Both the story of Oliva and that of her step-granddaughter almost merge, as you find yourself changing viewpoints with an ease that belies the skill of the author. Ruth Prawer Jhabvala died at the age of 85 this year but her work stands the test of time and this Booker winning novel will remain a classic.

Some friends will see from that quote why I might have been interested in Ruth Prawer Jhabvala, but I read this very short book mostly to improve my count of Booker winners this being only the 14th , as I'm active in a group where many people have read more [2. Some friends will see from that quote why I might have been interested in Ruth Prawer Jhabvala, but I read this very short book mostly to improve my count of Booker winners this being only the 14th , as I'm active in a group where many people have read more.

That characterisation - along with her scriptwriting work for Merchant Ivory - was pretty much all I remembered about the author at the time I started reading Heat and Dust. And I only learnt a few months ago that she wasn't, as I'd always previously assumed, Anglo-Indian. Although I was intensely engaged in note-taking and thinking all through the book, the analysis was almost all I got out of it. I found the prose boring, and the parallels between the two protagonists' stories became heavy-handed.

There are two alternating narratives in Heat and Dust. The other is a first-person narrative contemporary to the book's writing in the s, by the unnamed British granddaughter of Douglas' second marriage whom I'll refer to as the narrator or the granddaughter.

She is in her late 20s or early 30s and travels to India, with a cache of Olivia's letters, to see the scenes of this family scandal which is now beginning to be talked about, and to experience some of the 'simplicity' of India that attracted young Westerners on the hippie trail. No less than five of the first ten Booker Prize winners address the British Empire and its end. I haven't read any of the others, but it's clear from these wins that it was a big topic for British literary fiction at the time, and was predominantly written about from the British viewpoint all the winners other than V.

Naipaul were British or Irish. I had never been very keen to read these novels, as I expected the writing about India and Indian people would be clumsy from a contemporary viewpoint, and I didn't expect there would be much to learn about the old India hands that I hadn't already seen in old documentaries and light novels read when I was younger. Through most of the book, before I'd done more research, I developed a tentative hypothesis that Prawer Jhabvala a was notably progressive and perceptive in her attitudes by the standards of her time, and was subtly critiquing the granddaughter and people of her generation from similar old colonial service families - and the hippies - who thought they were more open-minded about India than they actually were.

Thus, the stereotypes in the third-person story about Olivia were present because the granddaughter was telling that story and because that was how she, and the sources from which she got the information, saw the people involved.

The wilful, coercively seductive Muslim Nawab, for instance, seems to fit the old desert sheikh stereotype in romance. This made it seem like a potentially rather interesting piece of literature for its time, and such layered complexity would explain its Booker win although some s commentators, such as those who criticise the lionising of sexist or abusive male narrators, e.

Pankaj Mishra's NYT review of another Prawer Jhabvala book refers to a s essay of hers which said "'how intolerable India -- the idea, the sensation of it -- can become' to someone like her… Jhabvala spoke of the intense heat, the lack of a social life and the 'great animal of poverty and backwardness' that she couldn't avoid".

I can certainly relate to the dissatisfaction of living in a place you don't like, and to some other ways which Mishra describes her: "the confident exile -- of the much displaced person who, finally secure in her inner world and reconciled to her isolation, looks askance at people longing for fulfillment in other cultures and landscapes", or " When fully absorbed by self-analysis, the perennial outsider usually ends up regarding all emotional and intellectual commitment as folly.

Such cold-eyed clarity, useful to a philosopher or mystic, can only be a disadvantage for the novelist, who needs to enter, at least temporarily, her characters' illusions in order to recreate them convincingly on the page.

IME it takes about as long to wear off as the time you lived there. I think there may be limited use in reading this novel these days, especially for those who find the writing as uninspiring as I did; to learn about India in the s or the 70s it's probably better to read non-fiction, and its frequently stereotypical attitudes will annoy some readers.

When the granddaughter tries to explain the hippies to her Indian landlord a few years younger than herself , it sounds as if she has a little affinity with them: "I tell him that many of us are tired of the materialism of the West, and even if we have no particular attraction towards the spiritual message of the-East, we come here in the hope of finding a simpler and more natural way of life.

He says why should people who have everything -motor cars, refrigerators - come here to such a place where there is nothing? When I try to protest, he works himself up more, He says he is perfectly well aware that, by Western standards, his house as well as his food and his way of eating it would be considered primitive, inadequate - indeed,. Yes he knows very well that he is lagging far behind in all these respects and on that account I am well entitled to laugh at him. Why shouldn't I laugh!

Some even have regional accents! This is instead about an absurd gulf between romantic expectation and physical reality, and how some Indian spiritual teachers seem to be either milking a cash-cow, or are just oblivious to realities: e. Even the s episodes seem to echo the old colonial idea of the 'white man's graveyard': the narrative intimates that the climate and the bugs are even bad for westerners who've been in India for several years, although an Indian doctor argues with the granddaughter that "this climate does not suit you people too well.

And let alone you people, it does not suit even us. I don't think it's entirely a "white feminist" book, in that nebulous 21st century term on which I will certainly not claim to be any kind of expert. Perhaps there is a certain amount of cheap hippyish respect for natural local medicine and so forth, but there is a theme running through the book being subtly positive about greater solidarity between women.

If Olivia had sought a respectable acquaintance with the Begum, or if she had gone to Simla with Beth, perhaps she would never have got into the mess she did with the Nawab. The two Bertha-from- Jane-Eyre figures still don't get a lot to say but they are at least shown to be victims rather than monsters; the granddaughter wants to arrange better treatment for the one in the s, and she seems to be genuinely open to befriending some of the Indian women she meets though we can't tell what they make of her.

Other than a doctor or two, and possibly the Nawab's London-based grandson, the Indian men don't come out of this awfully well, in terms of specific characters or general descriptions. Though neither do most of the white British men, other than possibly Douglas, who had "the eyes of a boy who read adventure stories and had dedicated himself to live up to their code of courage and honour" too normie and straightforward for Olivia ultimately?

The granddaughter sounds kind of optimistic at the end, but I felt the author wasn't very convinced by her either; I think RPJ treats everyone with detached cynicism, although some more politely than others.

I mean, the second I reached the end, I heard myself saying as if by a reflex, "thank fuck that's finished … that was a bit crap" - though hopefully the above paragraphs show it's not quite that simple, and I did kind of enjoy trying to analyse it. It is very short, so at least I wasn't bored for that long. And Booker completists will read it despite its not having aged terribly well. View all 9 comments. May 17, George K. Ilsley rated it really liked it Shelves: historical-fiction , fiction , india.

The winner of the Booker Prize, this slim novel packs a big punch. There is one timeline from "Olivia's story" and a second contemporary s timeline. Race, sexuality, spirituality, class systems, gender roles, layers of identity— all of these big tickets items are filtered through a deceptively spare narrative.

Big themes distilled into the essence of chara The winner of the Booker Prize, this slim novel packs a big punch. Big themes distilled into the essence of character and rendered with intimacy and grace — that is what this writer achieves. Told in alternating story lines from the point of view of Olivia and her step-granddaughter the narrator , the book moves between the s and the s as the narrator seeks to piece together the story of Olivia, supposedly from her letters and journals but more of that later and by retracing her steps, visiting the places Olivia lived in India.

Throughout the book, there is a real sense of history repeating itself in the lives of the two women. The author evokes the atmosphere of the Indian cities and countryside through which both women travel. However, they each have quite different responses to the India they encounter.

She embraces the atmosphere of India and, rather than feeling closed in, feels freer than she did back in England, as she emulates her Indian neighbours by sleeping outside at night because of the heat.

I have never known such a sense of communion. Lying like this under the open sky there is a feeling of being immersed in space — though not in empty space, for there are all these people sleeping all around me, the whole town and I am part of it.

How different from my often very lonely room in London with only my own walls to look at and my books to read. Olivia also comes across as spoiled and self-centered. Also, Olivia muses that Mrs. Right, so not a snob then. I also really struggled to understand why Olivia or anyone else, for that matter should be attracted to the Nawab.

He comes across as arrogant and manipulative — bordering on coercive — especially towards Harry, the young Englishman he has supposedly befriended. Furthermore, by the end of the book, how much more does the reader actually know about why Olivia acted the way she did and the consequences of her actions? Heat and Dust is interesting from the point of view of comparing the experiences of India by two women separated by fifty years and I liked the way the author created echoes of the earlier timeline in the later one.

However, I found it difficult to engage with the key characters and some of their actions and attitudes. Apr 22, Chrissie rated it liked it Shelves: classics , relationships , india , audible-uk , read , hf. Winner of the Booker Prize I like this book, but there are too many questions left hanging in the air for me to give it more stars. The author draws a story of two women and their perception of India. The tale flips back and forth between the two women and their respective time frames set fifty some years apart, one before the independence of India and the other after.

The first woman is the young Olivia Rivers married to a British officer stationed in Satipur. The year is She becomes bored by the lifestyle of British expat society. The allure of India pulls her. She runs off with an Indian prince. The second woman is the granddaughter of the husband Olivia deserted. In reading the book we compare the experiences of the two women and to what extent India has and has not changed before and after independence.

The similarities are striking. I like how the book captures the feel of India, in a somber, dark and enigmatic way. India has a unique allure. It has also attributes that repel. Who is drawn to it, who is repulsed by it and why are what I thought about. We are not told enough to understand the choices made by the characters. This is why I cannot give the book more than three stars. Julie Christie narrates the audiobook well. She switches between English spoken with a British accent and English spoken with an Indian accent.

Jul 25, Paul Ataua rated it really liked it. Two stories of women whose journeys to India are separated by half a century. One, Olivia, in the later later colonial period in the s, the other, an unnamed relative in the s, who sets out to find out what happened to Olivia. It says much about colonial attitudes and about how experiences can change someone. A short but satisfying read. For our better understanding, we should start with its brief synopsis: The beautiful, spoilt and bored Olivia, married to a civil servant, outrages society in the tiny, 3.

For our better understanding, we should start with its brief synopsis: The beautiful, spoilt and bored Olivia, married to a civil servant, outrages society in the tiny, suffocating town of Satipur by eloping with an Indian prince. It is a duth that is about a country at two very different points in time, the tale of failed marriage, the mysteries of people and love in the unlikeliest of places.

Many writers would have needed to write a huge novel to tell this tale, instead what we have is a book you can get lost in for a single sitting and be ruht beyond expectation. Its an epic distilled in a way, if thats not a cliche. I thought it was marvellous. Have you read this and if so dsut did you think? Have you read any of the authors other novels? Tagged as Ruth Prawer Jhabvala. I thought both were marvelous. I think, at the time, they were both part of an India craze here in America brought about by The Jewel in the Crown mini-series which was broadcast on PBS about that time.

That was an incredibly ungraceful sentence: This is a relatively short book Eva, not that that should make a difference but it can do and one that I think you would enjoy, it packs a punch thats for sure. I like the idea of your mini project, I am going to have to play blog catch up apols and see if you have started it. I wonder if it was lacking the visual appeal of a screen adaptation?

Hmmm maybe coming to it before the film was what did the trick for me Mary, and the fact that when I picked it up I had no expectations with it whatsoever. It has faded a little since reading but I still think its a captivating and interesting tale. Not a problem, I am hoping lots more people give this book a whirl.

The early Man Booker winners do seem to get missed as reads now. But my interest has been piqued so I may have to look for this one. I liked going off and discovering a book that no one, that I know of, has been talking about lately.

I think talking to the judges about all things Green Carnation, then the Man Booker hype etc meant I needed an escape and I got a very refreshing one. This is on my TBR list. Made our recent stay there all the more magical. I have been recommended A Fine Balance so many times Lucy it is untrue, and I will read it, the next time I have a long weekend. I promise, or maybe as a treat over Christmas, a classic and then that too. It is definitely worth a read. The story completely grips you and it brings to life both the Indian setting and social norms at the time completely to life.

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