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THE WOMEN'S PRIZE-SHORTLISTED POET AND PROVOCATEUR

An iconic, must-read novel of incels, influencers and AK-47s

'Best book of the year' NUSSAIBAH YOUNIS
'I'm a fan' NICOLA STURGEON
'Fearless and brilliant' LEMN SISSAY
'One of the greats' NIKITA GILL
'A tour de force' NIKESH SHUKLA

I mute the audio. I replay the video four times.
It is not me. It is my fucking face.

Amrita Chaturvedi goes by Amy. Amy identifies as a communist on Twitter (her profile omits a stint on Big Brother and a millionaire daddy running the show at the High Court of Delhi).

Then reality hits: a deepfake porno of her forwarded around by WhatsApp aunties goes viral. On her birthday, Amy wakes to a stoning in the digital town square that could cancel the likes of Kim Kardashian.

Her executioners? A cartel of unhinged virgins styling themselves after V for Vendetta - except these keyboard warriors are on a ruthless crusade to wipe out desi jezebels and Make India Hindu Again.

A muscular, monumental work of internet literature in which the online turns offline turns bloody, Fieldwork as a Sex Object is not a novel you read but a novel that reads you: what are you prepared to risk for what you claim to believe?

'Fieldwork as a Sex Object will simultaneously shock and reel you in' VOGUE
'One of the most urgent voices of tomorrow' HARPER'S BAZAAR
'Kandasamy is fearless on the page' ESQUIRE
'A one-woman, agitprop literary-political movement' INDEPENDENT
'One of fiction's most fiery and unclassifiable' GUARDIAN

Critics Review

One of my books of the year. I loved her last novel When I Hit You, but Fieldwork as a Sex Object is even better. Brave, bold, original and brilliantly written
Nicola Sturgeon, former Scottish First Minister
The best book of the year. Fieldwork as a Sex Object is compulsive, confronting, wild and utterly original
Nussaibah Younis, Women's Prize-shortlisted author of Fundamentally
One of the most urgent voices of tomorrow
Harper's Bazaar
There will be poetic justice when this fierce and brilliant novel goes viral
Lemn Sissay, author of My Name Is Why
One of fiction's most fiery and unclassifiable
Guardian
A revolutionary book by one of the greatest writers of our era
Nikita Gill, author of Hekate
A nuanced narrative... Will simultaneously shock and reel in readers
Vogue
An uncompromising, unrelenting and unbelievable tour-de-force that nails far-right incels to the wall by their nutsacks
Nikesh Shukla, author of The Good Immigrant
A one-woman, agitprop literary-political movement... It would take Carol Ann Duffy, Arundhati Roy and Salman Rushdie to match her infinite variety
Independent
Brilliant and brutal. In this fascinating novel, Kandasamy reveals with a delicate sort of mastery the many modes of oppression exercised against women
Pilar Quintana, author of The Bitch
Kandasamy is fearless on the page
Esquire
Her prose is electric, at once brave and poetic and satirical
Paris Review
Kandasamy's work becomes bolder and more exciting with each new book
Skinny
Author Meena Kandasamy
Narrator Mandeep Kapoor
Duration 5 hours and 12 minutes
Release Date
ISBN 9781840919479
Format Audiobook
Publisher Octopus
Genre Contemporary lifestyle fiction, Modern and contemporary fiction
Availability AU, GB, IE

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