'Heat and Dust' won the 1975 Booker Prize for Fiction. The story spans the past and the present, via the diary of an English girl who goes to India to reconstruct the story of Olivia, her grandfather's first wife. The story contrasts the India of 1923 with the India of the present.
- ISBN10 0844663352
- ISBN13 9780844663357
- Publish Date 1 December 1988 (first published 30 October 1975)
- Publish Status Unknown
- Publish Country US
- Imprint Peter Smith Publisher
- Format Hardcover
- Language English