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    Riot: A Love Story
    Riot: A Love Story
    Riot: A Love Story
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    Riot: A Love Story

    By Shashi Tharoor

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    Who killed twenty-four-year-old Priscilla Hart? This highly motivated, idealistic American student had come to India to volunteer in women’s health programs, but had her work made a killer out of an enraged husband? Or was her death the result of a xenophobic attack? Had an indiscriminate love affair spun out of control? Had a disgruntled, deeply jealous colleague been pushed to the edge? Or was she simply the innocent victim of a riot that had exploded in that fateful year of 1989 between Hindus and Muslims? 
    Experimenting masterfully with narrative form in this brilliant tour de force, internationally acclaimed novelist Shashi Tharoor chronicles 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. Like his two previous novels, Riot probes and reveals the richness of India, and is at once about love, hate, cultural collision, the ownership of history, religious fanaticism, and the impossibility of knowing the truth.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherArcade
    Release dateDec 3, 2011
    ISBN9781628722505
    Riot: A Love Story
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    Shashi Tharoor

    Shashi Tharoor served for twenty-nine years at the UN, culminating as Under-Secretary-General. He is a Congress MP in India, the author of fourteen previous books, and has won numerous literary awards, including a Commonwealth Writers’ Prize. Tharoor has a PhD from the Fletcher School, and was named by the World Economic Forum in Davos in 1998 as a Global Leader of Tomorrow.

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    • 3/5
      Wanted to see how a Shashi Tharoor book would be like. And took this book to experience that.

      Impressed by the language, and the flow of the book. Wanted to choose betewen 2 and 3 and I go for the higher one just because the book was an easy read. And the book kept the flow going without trouble.

      Like I told my parents when they asked about it - I feel this as a subtle way for Mr Tharoor to voice his opinion about things. And yes, I found some ( or maybe I should say , many ) interesting thoughts about India and its cultural diversity.

      Still not decided if I would want to pick up any of the other books from Shashi Tharoor.

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