{"product_id":"the-spoiled-heart-9780593656006","title":"The Spoiled Heart","description":"\u003cb\u003e\"Will consume any reader who picks it up.\"--Ron Charles, \u003ci\u003eThe Washington Post\u003c\/i\u003e \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\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 \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 ago. \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 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSunjeev Sahota \u003c\/b\u003eis the author of \u003ci\u003eChina Room\u003c\/i\u003e, which was longlisted for the Booker Prize and was a finalist for the Andrew Carnegie Medal; \u003ci\u003eThe Year of the Runaways\u003c\/i\u003e, which was shortlisted for the Booker Prize and the Dylan Thomas Prize and was awarded a European Union Prize for Literature; and \u003ci\u003eOurs Are the Streets\u003c\/i\u003e. He lives in Sheffield, England, with his family.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Penguin Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51243834867986,"sku":"9780593656006","price":12.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_2dd67723-6473-4244-b7b1-cb3226d0765e.jpg?v=1748526304","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/the-spoiled-heart-9780593656006","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}