Uploaded August 2023 | Updated September 2026, 7 hours ago
Told in alternating chapters, Heat and Dust moves between the 1920s and the 1970s as an unnamed narrator recounts the scandalous history of her step-grandmother and her own parallel experiences in India. The author, Ruth Prawer, was born into a German-assimilated Jewish family in Cologne in 1927. After marrying Cyrus Jhabvala, an Indian architect; the couple moved to Delhi. It was in India she became an accomplished writer of numerous novels and screenplays.
LBI's Book Club guest, Fawzia Afzal-Khan, is Professor of English at Montclair State University. She is a cultural materialist who works at the intersection of Feminist Theory, Cultural and Performance Studies, and Postcolonial Studies. Watch her discuss her thoughts on Heat and Dust and its author.
Told in alternating chapters, Heat and Dust moves between the 1920s and the 1970s as an unnamed narrator recounts the scandalous history of her step-grandmother and her own parallel experiences in India. The author, Ruth Prawer, was born into a German-assimilated Jewish family in Cologne in 1927. After marrying Cyrus Jhabvala, an Indian architect; the couple moved to Delhi. It was in India she became an accomplished writer of numerous novels and screenplays.
LBI's Book Club guest, Fawzia Afzal-Khan, is Professor of English at Montclair State University. She is a cultural materialist who works at the intersection of Feminist Theory, Cultural and Performance Studies, and Postcolonial Studies. Watch her discuss her thoughts on Heat and Dust and its author.
