A Burning: A Read with Jenna Pick
Release:
06/02/2020
Runtime:
7h 23m
Unabridged
Quantity:
“The elements of a thriller are transmuted into prismatic portraiture.”
New Yorker
New York Times bestseller
A #1 Amazon.com bestseller
An Entertainment Weekly Pick of Most Anticipated Books of Summer
New York Times Book Review Editor’s Choice
Finalist for the National Book Award for Fiction
New York Times Notable Book of the Year
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Finalist for the 2021 Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Fiction
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.
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.
Release:
2020-06-02
Runtime:
7h 23m
Format:
audio
Weight:
0.0 lb
Language:
English
ISBN:
9780593212103
Publisher:
Penguin Random House
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