EAN: 9781529921830

A HISTORY OF BURNING - JANIKA OZA KARTONIERT (TB)

THE INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLERA SARAH JESSICA PARKER BOOK OF THE YEARFour 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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