Avni Doshi
1) Burnt sugar
Author
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"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, 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...
Author
Pub. Date
2020
Edition
Unabridged
Language
English
Description
SHORTLISTED FOR THE BOOKER PRIZE 2020: A searing, compulsively readable story of mothers and daughters, memory and madness, love and betrayal
PICKED AS A BOOK OF THE YEAR 2020 BY the Guardian, Economist, Spectator and more...
'Arresting and fiercely intelligent, disarmingly witty and frank' Sunday Times
'Utterly compelling, unflinching, written with poignancy and memorability' The Booker Prize