Burnt Sugar

Burnt Sugar
Avni Doshi
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Paperback
h198 x 129mm - 240pg
3 Jun 2021 UK
International import eta 7-19 days
9780241989142
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In her youth, Tara was wild. She abandoned her loveless marriage to join an ashram, endured a brief stint as a beggar (mostly to spite her affluent parents), and spent years chasing after a dishevelled, homeless ' artist' - all with her young child in tow. Now she is forgetting things, mixing up her maid' s wages and leaving the gas on all night, and her grown-up daughter is faced with the task of caring for a woman who never cared for her. This is a love story and it is a story about betrayal. But not between lovers - between mother and daughter. Sharp as a blade and laced with caustic wit, Avni Doshi tests the limits of what we can know for certain about those we are closest to, and by extension, about ourselves.
A masterclass. Crisp, engaging, perfectly tragic in the way that families often tend to be. . . Doshi writes sharply, in no-nonsense prose, not a single sentence in the book can be omitted. . . Avni Doshi is a force to watch out for in the literary world * Scroll * Avni Doshi quietly, cleanly, slices through the heart. . . Impeccably insightful, carved from love, rage, and grief, here all embellishment is discarded, all artifice shorn - motherhood, family, memory, language - to reveal something devastating about our relationships, with ourselves and with those closest to us * Janice Pariat, author of ' The Nine-Chambered Heart' * Daring and deliciously dark, Burnt Sugar will keep you gripped until the very last sentence A brilliant debut, about mothers and daughters, that manages be acerbic and brittle all at the same time Raw, wise and cuttingly funny on love and cruelty, marriage and motherhood, art and illness, and one woman' s fight for her sense of self A courageous novel written in spare, gleaming sentences. It made me hold my breath and gather it up again * Tishani Doshi, author of ' Girls Are Coming Out of the Woods' * Beautifully grotesque, vivid, unexpected. Doshi knows her characters so intimately I felt I could reach out and touch the skin they' re in * Diksha Basu, author of ' The Windfall' * Acerbic, full of wit and cool intelligence - every sentence is a coiled spring and each psychological portrait burns itself into the mind. I couldn' t put it down Crystalline, surgical, compulsively readable. An examination of toxic relationships and the ties that bind us A disturbing tale of memory and forgetfulness, questioning the relevance and the authenticity of both * Indian Express * Taut, unsettling, ferocious
Avni Doshi was born in New Jersey in 1982 and is currently based in Dubai. She won the Tibor Jones South Asia Prize in 2013 and a Charles Pick Fellowship at the University of East Anglia in 2014. Her debut novel is published in India by Fourth Estate under the title Girl in White Cotton.
Status: Active
ISBN-13: 9780241989142
Published: 3 Jun 2021
Published In: United Kingdom
Imprint: Penguin Books
Publisher: Penguin Books
Format: Paperback
Height: 198mm
Width: 129mm
Pages: 240

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