A burning /
After a fiery attack on a train leaves 104 people dead, the fates of three people become inextricably entangled. Jivan, a bright, striving woman from the slums looking for a way out of poverty, is wrongly accused of planning the attack because of a careless comment on Facebook. PT Sir, a slippery gy...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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New York :
Alfred A. Knopf,
[2020]
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| Edition: | First edition. |
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| Summary: | After a fiery attack on a train leaves 104 people dead, the fates of three people become inextricably entangled. Jivan, a bright, striving woman from the slums looking for a way out of poverty, is wrongly accused of planning the attack because of a careless comment on Facebook. PT Sir, a slippery gym teacher from Jivan's former high school, has hitched his aspirations to a rising right wing party, and his own ascent becomes increasingly linked to Jivan's fall. Lovely, a spirited, impoverished, relentlessly optimistic hjira, who harbors dreams of becoming a Bollywood star, can provide the alibi that would set Jivan free, but her appearance in court will have unexpected consequences that will change the course of all of their lives. A novel about fate, power, opportunity and class, about innocence and guilt, betrayal and love and the corrosive media cycle that manufactures falsehoods masquerading as truths, A Burning is a debut novel of exceptional power and urgency, haunting and beautiful, brutal, vibrant, impossible to forget. |
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| Physical Description: | 293 pages ; 22 cm. |
| ISBN: | 9780525658696 0525658696 9781524711788 1524711780 |