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A Burning
by Megha Majumdar
3.5 / 4
When i saw the synopsis of A Burning on @netgalley, I knew I want to read it. It was a rough start with all the different characters and a whole new culture, so I tried transferring to audio. It worked perfectly, with three different narrators and Indian English, it gave me the background and atmosphere I lacked while reading it. In this story, we follow three different people presumably connected to a terrorist attack in modern day India. At moments I had trouble reading it cause some things reminded me on my own country. The brutality, the corruption, the feeling of hoplesness. ⠀
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This is a story about individuality in a country where a person is just a number. About the need for success and the sacrifices one must do to make it. How much of ourselves do we need to deny and what are the limits of our pride? And how in the end a personal gain comes always before compassion and humanity. ⠀
Big thnx to the publisher and NG for providing me a free eARC of this book.
When i saw the synopsis of A Burning on @netgalley, I knew I want to read it. It was a rough start with all the different characters and a whole new culture, so I tried transferring to audio. It worked perfectly, with three different narrators and Indian English, it gave me the background and atmosphere I lacked while reading it. In this story, we follow three different people presumably connected to a terrorist attack in modern day India. At moments I had trouble reading it cause some things reminded me on my own country. The brutality, the corruption, the feeling of hoplesness. ⠀
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This is a story about individuality in a country where a person is just a number. About the need for success and the sacrifices one must do to make it. How much of ourselves do we need to deny and what are the limits of our pride? And how in the end a personal gain comes always before compassion and humanity. ⠀
Big thnx to the publisher and NG for providing me a free eARC of this book.