Pride of place
Updated: 2014-05-13 08:00
By Mei Jia (China Daily)
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・ Heat and Dust
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Ruth Prawer Jhabvala (1975)
In this compelling novel by the only person to have won both the Booker Prize and an Oscar, a woman travels to India to learn the truth about her step-grandmother and her life under the British raj of the 1920s.
・ All About H. Hatterr
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G.V. Desani (1948)
It's the glorious mash-up of English and Indian colloquialisms that makes this book, about the son of a European merchant and a Malayan lady, such a wild, whimsical delight.
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