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Title Statement | The spoiled heart / Sunjeev Sahota. |
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Author | Sahota, Sunjeev, 1981- |
Publication | Toronto, ON: Alfred A. Knopf Canada,2024. |
Extent of Item | 329 pages ; |
ISBN | 9781039010529 (hardcover) |
Other Number | pr07379108 |
Summary | "Nayan Olak keeps seeing Helen Fletcher around town. She's returned with her teenage son to live in the run-down house at the end of the lane, and--though she's strangely guarded--Nayan can't help but be drawn to her. He hasn't risked love since losing his young family in a terrible accident twenty years earlier. In the wake of the tragedy, Nayan's labor union, long a cornerstone of his community, became the center of his life: a way for him to channel his energies into making the world a better--fairer, as he sees it--place. Now, he's decided to mount a run for the leadership. But his campaign pits him against a newcomer, Megha, who quickly proves to be a more formidable challenger than he anticipated. As Nayan's differences with Megha spin out of control, complicating the ideals he's always held dear, he grows closer to Helen--and unknowingly barrels toward long-held secrets about how their pasts might be connected. Suddenly, much more is threatened than his chances of winning. In one sense a tragedy in the classic mold, tracing one man's seemingly inexorable fall, The Spoiled Heart is also an explosively contemporary story of how a few words or a single action--to one person careless, to another, charged--can trigger a cascade of unimaginable consequences. A vivid and multi-layered exploration of the mysteries of the heart, how community is forged and broken, and the shattering impact of secrets and assumptions alike, it is a blazing achievement from one of Britain's foremost living writers"-- |
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By Topic | Labor unions--Fiction |
Man-woman relationships--Fiction | |
Communities--Fiction | |
Secrecy--Fiction | |
By Genre | Domestic fiction |
Political fiction | |
Psychological fiction | |
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