Heat and Dust

Heat and Dust is a novel by Ruth Prawer Jhabvala that won the Booker Prize in 1975. The book tells the story of Olivia, a woman who lives in India during the British Raj in the 1920s, and her affair with the Nawab. Through a series of flashbacks, the reader learns about Olivia's desire for excitement and her eventual affair with the Nawab, which leads to scandal and her decision to abort their child. The novel ends with a present-day narrator, who becomes pregnant and decides to spend her remaining years in a unnamed town, mirroring Olivia's life.learn more on wikipedia