TY  - BOOK
AU  - Majumdar,Megha
TI  - A burning
SN  - 9780525658696 :
AV  - PS3613.A35388 B87 2020
U1  - 813/.6 23
PY  - 2020///
CY  - New York
PB  - Alfred A. Knopf
KW  - Muslim women
KW  - Fiction
KW  - Railroad accidents
KW  - Terrorism
KW  - Suspense fiction
KW  - gsafd
N2  - "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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