Heat and Dust-热与尘

作者：Jhabvala Ruth Prawer

书名：Heat and Dust《热与尘》

中文简介：Heat and Dust《热与尘》这本书讲述了五十年间两代女性的故事，2014年与《红楼梦》共同获评“亚洲十部最佳小说”。小说的前半部分以第一人称讲述，一位女性前往印度寻找继祖母奥利维亚在19世纪20年代经历的故事。随后的叙述中又转成奥利维亚的视角，她看似一位英伦淑女，却被礼仪规矩束缚，渴望刺激，最后与人私奔。在印度的暑热与烟尘中，两代人的命运发生了奇异的重合……它在1983年被改编成同名电影，由詹姆斯·伊沃里执导。同年入围戛纳电影节，并在欧洲，尤其是英国引起轰动。

英文简介：Set in colonial India during the 1920s, Heat and Dust tells the story of Olivia, a beautiful woman suffocated by the propriety and social constraints of her position as the wife of an important English civil servant. Longing for passion and independence, Olivia is drawn into the spell of the Nawab, a minor Indian prince deeply involved in gang raids and criminal plots. She is intrigued by the Nawab's charm and aggressive courtship, and soon begins to spend most of her days in his company. But then she becomes pregnant, and unsure of the child's paternity, she is faced with a wrenching dilemma. Her reaction to the crisis humiliates her husband and outrages the British community, breeding a scandal that lives in collective memory long after her death.