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A History of Burning

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A History of Burning

Auteur(s): Janika Oza
Narrateur(s): Lipica Shah, KP Upadhyayula
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 INSTANT NATIONAL BESTSELLER • Winner of the 2024 Asian/Pacific American Award for Literature • Finalist for the 2023 Governor General's Award for Fiction, the 2024 Carol Shields Prize for Fiction, the 2024 Amazon Canada First Novel Award, and the 2024 Dayton Literary Peace Prize. • Named a Best Book of 2023 by the New York Times, The New Yorker, the Globe and Mail, CBC Books, Kobo Canada, and 49th Shelf

Four generations. Three sisters. One impossible choice. A profoundly moving debut novel spanning India, Uganda, England, and Canada, about how one act of survival reverberates across generations of a family and their search for a place of their own. Named a New York Times Book Review Editors' Pick, and a most anticipated book of 2023 by the Toronto Star, the Globe and Mail, OprahDaily, and Goodreads.

India, 1898. Pirbhai is the thirteen-year-old breadwinner for his family when he steps into a dhow on the promise of work, only to be taken across the ocean to labour on the East African Railway for the British. With no money or voice but a strong will to survive, he makes an impossible choice that will haunt him for the rest of his days and reverberate across generations.

Pirbhai’s children go on to thrive in Uganda during the waning days of British colonial rule. As the country moves towards independence and military dictatorship, Pirbhai’s granddaughters—sisters Latika, Mayuri, and Kiya—come of age in a divided nation, each forging her own path for the future. Latika is an aspiring journalist with a fierce determination to fight for what she believes in. Mayuri’s ambitions will take her farther away from her family than she ever imagined. And fearless Kiya will have to bear the weight of their secrets.

Forced to flee Uganda during Idi Amin’s brutal expulsion of South Asians in 1972, the family must start their lives over again in Toronto. Then one day news arrives that makes each generation question how far they are willing to go, and who they are willing to defy, to secure a place of their own in the world.

A masterful and breathtakingly intimate saga of colonialism and exile, complicity and resistance, A History of Burning is a radiant debut about the stories our families choose to share—and those that remain unspoken. Créateurs sud-asiatiques Fiction Fiction de genre Historique Littérature mondiale Effrayant Afrique Survie Période coloniale
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It was hard to follow at first, bit of a slow read but I began to enjoy at the end when everything came together.

Good Read

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I’m so glad I chose this book because it is such an amazing story. The author was great at telling stories and providing background information on the lives of the characters as well. The performances were great too. If this is a first novel, can’t wait to read the next one.

Excellent Novel

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As Ugandan Indians we rarely see our stories told, let alone told with the complexity needed to do justice to our experience. Oza has done an absolutely beautiful job of carrying the past forward. I am so grateful for her work and am blown away that this is her debut novel. A great read for anyone interested in the history or who simply wants to sink their teeth into a fantastically written and narrated story.

absolutely stunning story

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A stunning story that reminds us of the brutal, ‘de-humanizing’, shared-history of European colonialism and slavery and the ever enduring ‘hope’ for a better tomorrow…

Simply incredible…!! Will listen to this harrowing ‘tale’ over-and-over..

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I found the constant jumping from one character to another resulted in me caring very little about any of them. Only because this was selected by my book club did I bother to finish it. On a positive note, I did learn something new about the history of Uganda.

Not a fan of the story but the history was interesting

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