Burnt Sugar
Author(s): Avni Doshi
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 a story about betrayal. But not between lovers - between mother and daughter. Sharp as a blade and laced with caustic wit, Burnt Sugar unpicks the slippery cords of memory and myth that bind two women together, and hold them apart.
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Shortlisted - Booker Prize 2020 Longlisted - Women's Prize for Fiction 2021
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, Burnt Sugar, is longlisted for the Booker Prize 2020. A version of the same novel is also published in India under the title Girl in White Cotton.
General Fields
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- : Penguin Books, Limited
- : Penguin Books, Limited
- : 0.24
- : October 2019
- : 1.8 Centimeters X 13.5 Centimeters X 21.6 Centimeters
- : books
Special Fields
- : Avni Doshi
- : Paperback
- : proof
- : English
- : 229