Burnt Sugar
- Author Avni Doshi
- Narrator Vineeta Rishi
- Publisher Penguin Books Ltd
- Run Time 7 hours and 29 minutes
- Format Audio
- Genre Contemporary lifestyle fiction, Family life fiction, Modern and contemporary fiction, Narrative theme: Coming of age, Narrative theme: Love and relationships, Narrative theme: Social issues.
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What to expect
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 Judges 2020
In her youth, Tara was wild. She abandoned her arranged marriage to join an ashram, took a hapless artist for a lover, rebelled against every social expectation of a good Indian woman - all with her young child in tow. Years on, she is an old woman with a fading memory, 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 mother who never seemed to care for her.
This is a poisoned love story. But not between lovers - between mother and daughter. Sharp as a blade and laced with caustic wit, Burnt Sugar gradually untangles the knot of memory and myth that bind two women together, revealing the truth that lies beneath.
'An unsettling, sinewy debut, startling in its venom and disarming in its humour from the very first sentence' Guardian
'A corrosive, compulsive debut' Daily Telegraph (*****)
'Scouringly brilliant, a blazing debut with words that glitter sharp as shards of broken mirror' Buro.
Critics Review
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An unsettling, sinewy debut, startling in its venom and disarming in its humour from the very first sentence
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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
Observer -
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
Sunday Times -
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
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A corrosive, compulsive debut
Sunday Telegraph (five stars) -
Subtle, intelligent, thrilling, visceral
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