A Burning By Megha Majumdar ( Review )

Author : Megha Majumdar 

Rating : 9/10 📚✔️

Starting with the inspiring line of the book:

"If the police didn’t help ordinary people like you and me, if the police watched them die, doesn’t that mean, I wrote on Facebook, that the government is also a terrorist?."📜🖋️🖋️

This debut by Megha Majumdar is a powerful political fiction that is worth Reading.📣📝

The books cover, title and the storyline grabs your attention almost immediately. The theme of colors in the cover is done in an awesome way.📙✔️

A burning is electrifying debut novel about three unforgettable characters who find their lives entangled in the wake of a catastrophe. They seek to rise-to the middle class, to political power, to fame in the movies. 🧲🖋️

One is Jivan, a Muslim girl from the slums accused of executing a terrorist attack on a train because of a careless comment on Facebook. 💥🚊🚃

The second is PT Sir, an opportunistic gym teacher who hitches his aspirations to a right-wing political party, only to find his own ascent linked to Jivan's fall. 👊🧠

And the third is Lovely, an irresistible outcast who has an alibi that can set Jivan free-but at the cost of everything she holds dear. Taut, symphonic, propulsive and riveting right from the outset, ⛑️

A Burning has the force of an epic while being so masterfully compressed that it can be read in a single sitting. 🛑

Majumdar writes with dazzling assurance, at a breakneck pace, on complex themes that read as the components of a thriller: class, fate, corruption, justice and what it feels like to face profound obstacles while nurturing big dreams in a country spinning towards extremism.🚧🛤️