- American literature, Married people, fiction, Terrorism, fiction, Fiction, women
Set in Kolkata, India, the novel tells the story of its central character Jivan, a woman who witnesses a terrorist attack on an Indian train while it is stopped in a station.The woman posts to Facebook the next day, drawing the attention of police who arrest her on suspicion of committing the terrorist attack herself.
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- Author
- Megha Majumdar
- First published
- 2020
- Pages
- 304
- Publisher
- Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, Random House Large Print, Vintage
- Editions
- 9
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9781471190278
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