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 familys search for a better life, for fans of Half of a Yellow Sun, Homegoing and PachinkoA remarkable debut . . . haunting, symphonic New York TimesVast 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 BURNINGShortlisted for the Carol Shields Prize for Fiction and the Amazon Canada First Novel Award

Binding: Paperback;352 pages; Publisher: TBS-Penguin Random House Wholesale; Classification: FA; Weight: 412 g; Dimensions: 198 x 128 x 22

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