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.
