{"product_id":"riot-a-novel","title":"Riot - A Novel","description":"\u003cp\u003eAuthor: Shashi Tharoor\u003cbr\u003ePublisher: Penguin\/Viking\u003cbr\u003eYear: 2001\u003cbr\u003eLanguage: English\u003cbr\u003ePages: 272\u003cbr\u003eISBN\/UPC (if available): 0670049026\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e Description\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIntellectually provocative and emotionally charged, Riot is a novel about the ownership of history, about love, hate, cultural collision, religious fanaticism, and the impossibility of knowing the truth.   \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWho killed twenty-four-year-old Priscilla Hart? And why would anyone want to murder this idealistic American student who had come to India to volunteer in a women’s health programme?  Had her work made a killer out of an enraged husband?  Or was her death the result of a xenophobic attack?  Was she involved in an indiscriminate love affair that had spun out of control? Or was she simply the innocent victim of a riot that had exploded in that fateful year of 1989 between Hindus and Muslims? \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn this long-awaited new novel, Shashi Tharoor experiments brilliantly with narrative form, chronicling the mystery of Priscilla Hart’s death through the often contradictory accounts of a dozen or more characters, all of whom relate their own versions of the events surrounding her killing. \u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"The India Club","offers":[{"title":"Shashi Tharoor \/ Penguin\/Viking \/ Hardcover","offer_id":68153737281904,"sku":"8274","price":27.75,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1041\/5203\/9792\/files\/8274.jpg?v=1793913391","url":"https:\/\/marketcalvexa.shop\/products\/riot-a-novel","provider":"Alderstone House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}