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A HISTORY OF BURNING - JANIKA OZA KARTONIERT (TB)

THE INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER A SARAH JESSICA PARKER BOOK OF THE YEAR  Four generations. Three
sisters. One impossible choice.   Tricked aboard a boat to East Africa  Pirbhai is only
thirteen when he is forced by the British into labouring on the railway. Under sweltering heat
hungry and frightened  he commits a terrible act just to survive.  He will never tell a soul 
even when he meets Sonal  a fierce  loving woman with whom he starts a family in Uganda  in
hope of a better life. But their granddaughters come of age in a divided nation.  Finally
forced to flee  the family scatters across the world. They take with them a steel pot  a
handful of photos  and a secret - that one day  will help them find each other again.   A
History of Burning is a gorgeous family portrait of love  survival  inheritance - and the
eternal search for home.   One family's search for a better life  for fans of Half of a Yellow
Sun  Homegoing and Pachinko    'A remarkable debut . . . haunting  symphonic' New York Times  
'Vast and intricate  alight with love and contained fury . . . A book I want to press into
readers' hands and discuss for hours' Megha Majumdar  author of A BURNING    Shortlisted for
the Carol Shields Prize for Fiction and the Amazon Canada First Novel Award

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