{"product_id":"history-of-burning-janika-oza-9781529921830","title":"History of Burning","description":"THE INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER\nA SARAH JESSICA PARKER BOOK OF THE YEAR\nFour generations. Three sisters. One impossible choice.\nTricked 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.\nHe 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.\nFinally 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.\nA History of Burning is a gorgeous family portrait of love, survival, inheritance - and the eternal search for home.\nOne family's search for a better life, for fans of Half of a Yellow Sun, Homegoing and Pachinko\n'A remarkable debut . . . haunting, symphonic' New York Times\n'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\nShortlisted for the Carol Shields Prize for Fiction and the Amazon Canada First Novel Award","brand":"Vintage Publishing","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49569229406496,"sku":"9781529921830","price":9.34,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0753\/2812\/7264\/files\/9781529921830.jpg?v=1785226446","url":"https:\/\/bookcorner.com\/products\/history-of-burning-janika-oza-9781529921830","provider":"The Book Corner","version":"1.0","type":"link"}