Ruth Prawer Jhabvala

The beautiful, spoiled, and bored Olivia, married to a civil servant, outrages society in the tiny, suffocating town of Satipur by eloping with an Indian prince. Fifty years later, her step-granddaughter goes back to the heat, the dust, and the squalor of the bazaars to solve the enigma of Olivia's scandal. A superb book. A complex story line, handled with...