LEADER 03009nam 22004813 450 001 9910163923403321 005 20230808201500.0 010 $a1-101-87546-1 035 $a(CKB)3710000001055902 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC6107107 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL6107107 035 $a(OCoLC)964419078 035 $a(BIP)52634451 035 $a(BIP)52208963 035 $a(EXLCZ)993710000001055902 100 $a20210901d2016 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcnu|||||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 10$aBurning down the House $eA Novel 205 $a1st ed. 210 1$aWestminster :$cKnopf Doubleday Publishing Group,$d2016. 210 4$dİ2016. 215 $a1 online resource (242 pages) 311 08$a1-101-87545-3 330 $a"It begins with a child . . ." So opens Jane Mendelsohn's powerful, riveting new novel. A classic family tale colliding with the twenty-first century, Burning Down the House tells the story of two girls. Neva, from the mountains of Russia, was sold into the sex trade at the age of ten; Poppy is the adopted daughter of Steve, the patriarch of a successful New York real estate clan, the Zanes. She is his sister's orphaned child. One of these young women will unwittingly help bring down this grand household with the inexorability of Greek tragedy, and the other will summon everything she's learned and all her strength to try to save its members from themselves.  In cinematic, dazzlingly described scenes, we enter the lavish universe of the Zane family, from a wedding in an English manor house to the trans-global world of luxury hotels and restaurants--from New York to Rome, Istanbul to Laos. As we meet them all--Steve's second wife, his children from his first marriage, the twins from the second, their friends and household staff--we enter with visceral immediacy an emotional world filled with a dynamic family's loves, jealousies, and yearnings. In lush, exact prose, Mendelsohn transforms their private stories into a panoramic drama about a family's struggles to face the challenges of internal rivalry, a tragic love, and a shifting empire. Set against the backdrop of financial crisis, globalization, and human trafficking, the novel finds inextricable connections between the personal and the political. Dramatic, compassionate, and psychologically complex, Burning Down the House is both wrenching and unputdownable, an unforgettable portrayal of a single family caught up in the earthquake that is our contemporary world. 606 $aUpper class families 606 $aHuman trafficking 606 $aOrphans 615 0$aUpper class families. 615 0$aHuman trafficking. 615 0$aOrphans. 676 $a813/.54 700 $aMendelsohn$b Jane$01246042 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910163923403321 996 $aBurning down the House$92889358 997 $aUNINA