02733cam a2200277 4500 1650523828 TxAuBib 20241008120000.0 ||||||s2024||||||||||||||||||||||||und|u 9780593655993 0593655990 0030693603 Axis360 TxAuBib Sahota, Sunjeev. The Spoiled Heart [Boundless]. Viking Pr, 2024. “Will consume any reader who picks it up.” —Ron Charles, The Washington PostA brilliant and riveting story of ambition, love, family secrets, and unintended consequences, from “bold storyteller” (The New Yorker) and two-time Booker Prize nominee Sunjeev SahotaNayan 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 ago.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 multilayered 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. Format: Blio. FICTION / World Literature / England / 21st Century; FICTION / Family Life / General; FICTION / Political. General Adult. Importer Version: 2016-03-11.01 Import Date: 2024-10-08 20:00:03. Fiction fast Political. Fiction fast Family Life General. Fiction fast World Literature England. https://hslibrary.boundless.baker-taylor.com/Title?itemId=0030693603 TXHSP