Riot: A Novel
- Publisher : Penguin Random House
- Binding : Paperback
- ISBN : 9780143420217
- Imprint : Penguin
- Age Group : Adult
- Language : English
Who killed twenty four year old Priscilla Hart? and why would anyone want to murder this idealistic American student who ...
Who 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? Was she the innocent victim of a riot between Hindus and Muslims? 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. Intellectually provocative and emotionally charged, Riot is a novel about the ownership of history, about love, hate, cultural commission, religious fanaticism and the impossibility of knowing the truth.