The Exposition

What can be said about the exposition?

Well, I think all in all on this few pages is presented the whole story. We get to know all important information about the characters of the two plots, one playing in the 1970s, the year when the female narrator goes to India to retrace the mystery around Olivia, the main character of 1923. She eloped with an Indian Prince although she was married with Douglas, the future husband of the narrators grand mother Tessie, whose sister lives in India, too.

As we get to know, only as Douglas dies, thanks the arrival of Harry, an Englishman and old friend of the Nawab, Beth and Tessie talk again about Olivia and get in possess of the letters she wrote to her sister Marcia during the time 1923. Like that, the narrator
begins to feel interested in it, and finally makes the log trip to Bombay and Satipur,
making her own experiences.

By letting us know somehow the whole story the author evokes a feeling of curiosity
because now we can ask ourselves the question how this all happened and why Olivia
eloped with the Nawab, although she was married.

Ruth Prawer Jhabvala- Heat and Dust

My new blog focuses on a book called Heat and Dust written by Ruth Prawer Jhabvala.
In the story a young woman goes to India to retrace the steps of Olivia, a distant relative who moved to India in the 1920s as the wife of a British administrator. As she reveals more of the scandal that surrounded Olivia, the young narrator herself begins to feel increasingly overwhelmed by India and all it has to offer.

On different pages I will give you information about the author, the story itself and the characters, background
information and quotes or thoughts that interested me
while reading.