Heat and Dust

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"Heat and Dust" is a Booker Prize–winning novel by Ruth Prawer Jhabvala that interweaves parallel stories of two Englishwomen in India, exploring themes of colonialism, desire, and cultural clash.

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instanceOf Booker Prize-winning work
novel
adaptedAs Heat and Dust (film) NERFINISHED
author Ruth Prawer Jhabvala NERFINISHED
awardReceived Booker Prize NERFINISHED
countryOfOrigin United Kingdom
featuresCharacter Olivia NERFINISHED
unnamed narrator
filmAdaptationDirector James Ivory NERFINISHED
filmAdaptationScreenwriter Ruth Prawer Jhabvala NERFINISHED
genre historical fiction
novel
postcolonial literature
hasLiteraryAwardCategory Booker Prize for Fiction NERFINISHED
literaryPeriod 20th-century literature
mainSetting India NERFINISHED
narrativeStructure parallel stories
originalLanguage English
publisher John Murray NERFINISHED
settingTimePeriod 1920s India
1970s India
theme British Raj NERFINISHED
colonialism
cross-cultural relationships
cultural clash
desire

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Ruth Prawer Jhabvala notableWork Heat and Dust
Ruth Prawer Jhabvala workedOn Heat and Dust
this entity surface form: Heat and Dust (film)
James Ivory notableWork Heat and Dust
Merchant Ivory Productions producedFilm Heat and Dust
this entity surface form: Heat and Dust (1983 film)
Ismail Merchant notableWork Heat and Dust
Shashi Kapoor notableWork Heat and Dust
Walter Lassally notableWork Heat and Dust