# Riot

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- Book: [Riot](https://www.bookquiver.com/tharoor-shashi/riot) ([Riot.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/tharoor-shashi/riot.md))
- Authors: [Shashi Tharoor](https://www.bookquiver.com/tharoor-shashi)
- Publisher: india_penguin
- ISBN: 978-01-4342-021-7
- Pages: 280
- Published: 2015-01-01
- Language: en_IN
- Binding: Softcover

## Description

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.