A fine debut novel about a family’s trajectory from India in 1898 to Idi Amin’s Uganda, and then to Canada in the 1990s; it’s underpinned by a secret, and a letter.
A History of Burning
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£16.99
Edition:Hardback978178474479304/05/2023
Categories: 04. Spring Books 2023: Fiction, Fiction, Spring Books 2023
Tags: Exiles & Emigr?s, South Asia
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