{"product_id":"9781529921830","title":"A History of Burning","description":"\u003cp\u003eTHE 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 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 BURNINGShortlisted for the Carol Shields Prize for Fiction and the Amazon Canada First Novel Award\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Rye Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45470849859805,"sku":"9781529921830","price":10.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0064\/1368\/0730\/files\/9781529921830.jpg?v=1720193206","url":"https:\/\/ryebooks.co.uk\/products\/9781529921830","provider":"Rye Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}