One Small Voice av Santanu Bhattacharya

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<p><b>AN <i>OBSERVER </i>BEST DEBUT NOVEL FOR 2023</b><br><br><b>''One of the best debuts this year'' <i>Guardian</i><br><br>''An intoxicating portrait of modern India ... Terrific'' <i>Daily Mail</i></b><br><br><b>''Hugely engaging, written with verve, intelligence and compassion'' <i>Irish Times</i></b><br><i>____________________________________________</i><br><br>India, 1992. The country is ablaze with riots. In Lucknow, ten-year-old Shubhankar witnesses a terrible act of mob violence that will alter the course of his life: one to which his family turn a blind eye.<br><br>As he approaches adulthood, Shabby focuses on the only path he believes will buy him an escape - good school, good degree, good job, good car. But when he arrives in Mumbai in his twenties, he begins to question whether there might be other roads he could choose. His new friends, Syed and Shruti, are asking the same questions : together, buoyed by the freedom of the big city, they are rewriting their stories.<br><b