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Girls Burn Brighter
- Author
- Shobha Rao
- Narrator
- Soneela Nankani
- Publisher
- Little, Brown Book Group
- Publish Date
- 3 May 2018
- Run Time
- 11 hours 39 minutes
- Format
- Audiobook
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What to expect
Huffington Post
An electrifying debut novel - the story of the unbreakable bond between two girls driven apart, and their journeys across continents to find each other again.
Poornima and Savitha, born in poverty, have known little kindness in their lives until they meet as teenagers. When an act of devastating cruelty drives Savitha away, Poornima leaves behind everything she has ever known to find her friend.
Alternating between the girls' perspectives as they face apparently insurmountable obstacles on their travels through the darkest corners of India's underworld and across an ocean, Girls Burn Brighter introduces two heroines who refuse to lose the hope that burns within.
Critics Review
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'Girls Burn Brighter by Shobha Rao blew my heart up. Heart-shards everywhere. I am in awe of the warmth and humanity in this book, even as it explores some incredibly dark places. I'm going to be thinking about Girls Burn Brighter for a while, and you're going to be hearing a lot about it'
Charlie Jane Anders, author of All the Birds in the Sky
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Burns with intensity . . . [Rao] is clearly a writer of great ambition
USA Today
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A searing portrait of what feminism looks like in much of the world
Vogue
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Shobha Rao writes cleanly and eloquently about women who, without their brightness, might have been left to die in their beds. She writes them into life, into existence, into the light of day
Los Angeles Times
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Rao evokes the landscape of poverty with great skill . . . this is a timely portrayal of human traffi cking, cultural misogyny and the battles still fought every day by millions of women worldwide
Observer
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Elegant and eloquent . . . this emotionally devastating story is at times almost too harrowing to read
Mail on Sunday
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Details
- Author
- Shobha Rao
- Narrator
- Soneela Nankani
- Duration
- 11 hours 39 minutes
- Release Date
- 3 May 2018
- ISBN
- 9781405540605
- Format
- Audiobook
- Publisher
- Little, Brown Book Group
- Genre
- Modern and contemporary fiction: literary and general
Synopsis
'A treat for Ferrante fans, exploring the bonds of friendship and how female ambition beats against the strictures of poverty and patriarchal societies' Huffington PostAn electrifying debut novel - the story of the unbreakable bond between two girls driven apart, and their journeys across continents to find each other again.Poornima and Savitha, born in poverty, have known little kindness in their lives until they meet as teenagers. When an act of devastating cruelty drives Savitha away, Poornima leaves behind everything she has ever known to find her friend.Alternating between the girls' perspectives as they face apparently insurmountable obstacles on their travels through the darkest corners of India's underworld and across an ocean, Girls Burn Brighter introduces two heroines who refuse to lose the hope that burns within.
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