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A Burning: A Read with Jenna Pick
Megha Majumdar
其他書名
A Novel
出版
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
, 2020-06-02
主題
Fiction / Literary
Fiction / Thrillers / General
Fiction / Political
ISBN
052565870X
9780525658702
URL
http://books.google.com.hk/books?id=oRGuDwAAQBAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api
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NATIONAL BESTSELLER • A READ WITH JENNA BOOK CLUB PICK!
• A "gripping thriller with compassionate social commentary" (
USA Today
) about three unforgettable characters who seek to rise
—
to the middle class, to political power, to fame in the movies
—
and find their lives entangled in the wake of a catastrophe in contemporary India.
Jivan is a Muslim girl from the slums, determined to move up in life, who is accused of executing a terrorist attack on a train because of a careless comment on Facebook. PT Sir is an opportunistic gym teacher who hitches his aspirations to a right-wing political party and finds that his own ascent becomes linked to Jivan's fall. Lovely
—
an irresistible outcast whose exuberant voice and dreams of glory fill the novel with warmth and hope and humor
—
has the alibi that can set Jivan free, but it will cost her everything she holds dear.
Taut, symphonic, propulsive, and riveting from its opening lines,
A Burning
is an electrifying debut.