A Burning
Winner of the Whiting Award • A New York Times Notable Book • A Read with Jenna Book Club Pick • American Library Accociation Andrew Carnegie Medal Finalist • Nominated for the National Book Award and the National Book Critics Circle John Leonard Award • One of The Guardian's Best Books of the Year • One of Time's Must-Read Books of 2020
For readers of Tommy Orange, Yaa Gyasi, and Jhumpa Lahiri, an electrifying debut novel about three unforgettable characters who seek to rise—to the middle class, to politcal 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…
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June 29, 2021
MEGHA MAJUMDAR is the author of the New York Times bestselling novel A Burning, which was nominated for the National Book Award, the National Book Critics Circle's John Leonard Prize, and the American Library Association's Andrew Carnegie Medal. It was named one of the best books of the year by media including The Washington Post, The New York Times, NPR, The Atlantic, Vogue, and TIME Magazine. A 2022 Whiting Award winner, she was born and raised in Kolkata, India, and holds degrees in anthropology from Harvard and Johns Hopkins. She is the former editor in chief of Catapult books, and lives in New York.
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