Burnt Sugar
Autor Avni Doshien Limba Engleză Paperback – mar 2022
“I would be lying if I say my mother’s misery has never given me pleasure,” says Antara, Tara’s now-adult daughter.
This is a love story and a story about betrayal—not between lovers but between a mother and a daughter. . . . In her youth, Tara was wild. She abandoned her arranged marriage to join an ashram, embarked on a stint as a beggar (mostly to spite her affluent parents), and spent years chasing a disheveled, homeless “artist,” all with little Antara in tow.
But now Tara is forgetting things, and Antara is an adult—an artist and married—and must search for a way to make peace with a past that haunts her as she confronts the task of caring for a woman who never cared for her.
Sharp as a blade and laced with caustic wit, Burnt Sugar unpicks the slippery, choking cord of memory and myth that binds mother and daughter: Is Tara’s memory loss real? Are Antara’s memories fair? In vivid and visceral prose, Avni Doshi tells a story at once shocking and empathetic of a mother-daughter relationship and a daughter’s search for self. A journey into shifting memories, altering identities, and the subjective nature of truth, Burnt Sugar is the stunning and unforgettable debut of a major new voice in contemporary fiction.
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9781419752933
ISBN-10: 1419752936
Pagini: 240
Dimensiuni: 141 x 204 x 20 mm
Greutate: 0.25 kg
Editura: Overlook Press
ISBN-10: 1419752936
Pagini: 240
Dimensiuni: 141 x 204 x 20 mm
Greutate: 0.25 kg
Editura: Overlook Press
Notă biografică
Avni
Doshiwas
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,
was
shortlisted
for
the
Booker
Prize
2020.
The
novel
is
published
in
India
asGirl
in
White
Cotton,where
it
won
the
Sushila
Devi
Award
2021.
Recenzii
An
unsettling,
sinewy
debut,
startling
in
its
venom
and
disarming
in
its
humour
from
the
very
first
sentence
Extraordinary. Exquisitely written, painfully exhilarating, impossible to put down... An elegant family story that sizzles with hatred... Come for the effortlessly stylish writing, stay for the boiling wrath
Arresting and fiercely intelligent, disarmingly witty and frank...Horror stories from the past seep into the present, as Doshi builds her portrait of a fractured mother-daughter relationship
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
A corrosive, compulsive debut
Subtle, intelligent, thrilling, visceral
This caustic tale of a destructive mother-daughter bond is as potent as its title might suggest...It bristles with sharp, chilly aphorisms... Doshi's visceral debut is a no-holds-barred excavation of how hate can both poison and sustain
Scouringly brilliant, a blazing debutthat sticks in the mind like caramel blackened to the bottom of a pan... Doshi draws our relationships, both with the truth and with other people, withwords that glitter sharp as shards of broken mirror
When does self-determination become selfishness? What can you learn from a bad mother? ...Sorrowful, sceptical and electrifyingly truthful about mothers and daughters
A sly, slippery, often heartbreaking novel about the role memory plays within families
A raw, vividly described exploration of the toxic relationship between two women who are forever bound together
Burnt Sugarstraddles the line between pain and beauty. It makes the stomach churn. And, like all great literature, it prompts the question of the reader: is this you?
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
Daring and deliciously dark,Burnt Sugarwill keep you gripped until the very last sentence
Raw, wise and cuttingly funnyon love and cruelty, marriage and motherhood, art and illness, and one woman's fight for her sense of self
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
A brilliant debut, about mothers and daughters, that manages be acerbic and brittle all at the same time
A courageous novel written in spare, gleaming sentences. It made me hold my breath and gather it up again
Beautifully grotesque, vivid, unexpected.Doshi knows her characters so intimately I felt I could reach out and touch the skin they're in
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
Taut, unsettling, ferocious
Avni Doshi writes fearlessly, with a cruel, almost terrifying intelligence. I was discomfited and exhilarated
Extraordinary. Exquisitely written, painfully exhilarating, impossible to put down... An elegant family story that sizzles with hatred... Come for the effortlessly stylish writing, stay for the boiling wrath
Arresting and fiercely intelligent, disarmingly witty and frank...Horror stories from the past seep into the present, as Doshi builds her portrait of a fractured mother-daughter relationship
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
A corrosive, compulsive debut
Subtle, intelligent, thrilling, visceral
This caustic tale of a destructive mother-daughter bond is as potent as its title might suggest...It bristles with sharp, chilly aphorisms... Doshi's visceral debut is a no-holds-barred excavation of how hate can both poison and sustain
Scouringly brilliant, a blazing debutthat sticks in the mind like caramel blackened to the bottom of a pan... Doshi draws our relationships, both with the truth and with other people, withwords that glitter sharp as shards of broken mirror
When does self-determination become selfishness? What can you learn from a bad mother? ...Sorrowful, sceptical and electrifyingly truthful about mothers and daughters
A sly, slippery, often heartbreaking novel about the role memory plays within families
A raw, vividly described exploration of the toxic relationship between two women who are forever bound together
Burnt Sugarstraddles the line between pain and beauty. It makes the stomach churn. And, like all great literature, it prompts the question of the reader: is this you?
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
Daring and deliciously dark,Burnt Sugarwill keep you gripped until the very last sentence
Raw, wise and cuttingly funnyon love and cruelty, marriage and motherhood, art and illness, and one woman's fight for her sense of self
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
A brilliant debut, about mothers and daughters, that manages be acerbic and brittle all at the same time
A courageous novel written in spare, gleaming sentences. It made me hold my breath and gather it up again
Beautifully grotesque, vivid, unexpected.Doshi knows her characters so intimately I felt I could reach out and touch the skin they're in
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
Taut, unsettling, ferocious
Avni Doshi writes fearlessly, with a cruel, almost terrifying intelligence. I was discomfited and exhilarated