LEADER 00000pam  2200301 i 4500 
003    DLC 
005    20200611095717.1 
008    190930s2020    nyu    e      000 1 eng   
010      2019039498 
020    9780525658696|q(hardback) 
040    DLC|beng|erda|cDLC|dGCmBT|dUtOrBLW 
042    pcc 
092    |fF|aMAJUMDAR 
100 1  Majumdar, Megha,|eauthor. 
245 12 A burning /|cMegha Majumdar. 
250    First edition. 
264  1 New York :|bAlfred A. Knopf,|c2020. 
300    293 pages ;|c22 cm 
336    text|btxt|2rdacontent 
337    unmediated|bn|2rdamedia 
338    volume|bnc|2rdacarrier 
520    "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"--|cProvided by 
       publisher. 
650  0 Muslim women|vFiction. 
650  0 Railroad accidents|vFiction. 
650  0 Terrorism|vFiction. 
655  7 Suspense fiction.|2gsafd