02780cam a2200361 i 4500 2569156520 TxAuBib 20250915120000.0 250204s2025||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 2024038328 9780063303607 hardcover 0063303604 hardcover 9780063303614 trade paperback 0063303612 trade paperback (OCoLC)1453287611 TxAuBib rda Batsha, Nishant, author. A bomb placed close to the heart : a novel / Nishant Batsha. First edition. New York, New York : Ecco, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers, [2025] 286 pages ; 24 cm. txt rdacontent n rdamedia nc rdacarrier "An expansive and poignant novel of love, radical ambition, and intellectual rebirth set at the dawn of World War I. At a party near Stanford University's campus in 1917, Cora Trent, a graduate student raised in the rugged mining towns of the American West, meets Indra Mukherjee, an Indian revolutionary newly arrived in California. Indra is grieving the recent loss of a friend and unsure of the place violence has in the cause of national liberation, while Cora is seeking a new life that stays true to her ambitions as a writer and an idealist. They spark an instant connection, and their passionate romance deepens as they attend protests alongside anticolonial dissidents and socialize with radical thinkers in Berkeley and Palo Alto. All the while, Indra awaits orders from a mysterious German spymaster. As the United States is drawn into the war in Europe, Cora and Indra quickly marry in a climate increasingly intolerant of dissent. When news of arrests threatens their future together, they are forced to flee to New York City with the hope that they can avoid the attention of the British and American authorities. Trying to find footing in their new life, Cora and Indra must reckon with divergent ambitions that challenge the foundations of their hasty marriage-and their freedom. Profound, immersive, tenderly written, and with finely wrought characters drawn from the forgotten archives of American history, A Bomb Placed Close to the Heart is an extraordinary story of a marriage caught at the intersection of radical politics and everyday life"-- Provided by publisher. 20250915. East Indians California Fiction. Intercountry marriage Fiction. Radicals Fiction. World war, 1914-1918 Fiction. Historical fiction. lcgft TXKIP