A
burning
Majumdar, Megha
creator
author.
text
Suspense fiction.
nyu
2020
First edition.
monographic
eng
293 pages ; 22 cm
"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"--
Megha Majumdar.
Muslim women
Fiction
Railroad accidents
Fiction
Terrorism
Fiction
PS3613.A35388 B87 2020
813/.6
Burning
Majumdar, Megha.
New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2020
(DLC) 2019039499
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2019039498
DLC
190930
20200921121439.0
2019039498
eng