{"product_id":"books-a-history-of-burning-by-janika-oza","title":"A History of Burning","description":"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","brand":"World of Books ","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53673322643729,"sku":null,"price":0.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/9781529921830.jpg?v=1781524950","url":"https:\/\/www.worldofbooks.com\/products\/books-a-history-of-burning-by-janika-oza","provider":"World of Books ","version":"1.0","type":"link"}