{"product_id":"the-spoiled-heart","title":"The Spoiled Heart","description":"\u003cb\u003eA brilliant and riveting story of ambition, love, family secrets, and unintended consequences, from \"bold storyteller\" (\u003ci\u003eThe New Yorker\u003c\/i\u003e) and two-time Booker Prize nominee Sunjeev Sahota\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eNayan 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 earlier. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn 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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eAs 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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn one sense a tragedy in the classic mold, tracing one man's seemingly inexorable fall, \u003ci\u003eThe Spoiled Heart \u003c\/i\u003eis 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 multi-layered 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.\r","brand":"Sunjeev Sahota","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":44443984527596,"sku":"9780593655986","price":29.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0684\/1791\/3068\/files\/9780593655986.jpg?v=1709487536","url":"https:\/\/intl.allstora.com\/products\/the-spoiled-heart","provider":"Allstora","version":"1.0","type":"link"}