Burnt sugar
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Published
New York : The Overlook Press, 2021.
Format
Book
Physical Desc
231 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
ISBN
9781419752926, 1419752928

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Originally published in India in 2019 with title: Girl in white cotton.
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SHORTLISTED FOR THE BOOKER PRIZE 2020: A searing, compulsively readable story of mothers and daughters, memory and madness, love and betrayal. '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.
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Shortisted for the 2020 Booker Prize.

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APA Citation, 7th Edition (style guide)

Doshi, A. (2021). Burnt sugar . The Overlook Press.

Chicago / Turabian - Author Date Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)

Doshi, Avni, 1982-. 2021. Burnt Sugar. The Overlook Press.

Chicago / Turabian - Humanities (Notes and Bibliography) Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)

Doshi, Avni, 1982-. Burnt Sugar The Overlook Press, 2021.

MLA Citation, 9th Edition (style guide)

Doshi, Avni. Burnt Sugar The Overlook Press, 2021.

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