Burnt sugar [Paperback]
Doshi, Avni2020
Books
Find it!
This is a novel about mothers and daughters, obsession and betrayal. 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.
Main title:
Burnt sugar [Paperback] / Avni Doshi.
Author:
Doshi, Avni, author
Imprint:
London : Hamish Hamilton, an imprint of Penguin Books, 2020.©2020
Collation:
228 pages ; 22 cm
Awards:
Longlisted for The 2020 Booker Prize.
ISBN:
9780241441510 (paperback)
Dewey class:
813.6
Language:
English
Subject:
BRN:
372203
More Information:
| Location | Collection | Call number | Status/Desc |
|---|---|---|---|
| Beaumaris Library | Adult Fiction - General | DOSH | Onloan - Due: 27 May 2024 |
| Brighton Library | Adult Fiction - General | DOSH | Available |
| Hampton Library | Adult Fiction - General | DOSH | Available |
| Sandringham Library | Adult Fiction - General | DOSH | Available |