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Burnt Sugar

The Booker Prize-shortlisted novel

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Burnt Sugar

Yazan: Avni Doshi
Seslendiren: Vineeta Rishi
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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

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.

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An unsettling, sinewy debut, startling in its venom and disarming in its humour from the very first sentence (Elle Hunt)
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
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
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
A corrosive, compulsive debut
Subtle, intelligent, thrilling, visceral (Rhiannon Lucy Cosslett)
This caustic tale of a destructive mother-daughter bond is as potent as its title might suggest... It bristles with sharp, chilly aphorisms... Doshi's visceral debut is a no-holds-barred excavation of how hate can both poison and sustain
Scouringly brilliant, a blazing debut that sticks in the mind like caramel blackened to the bottom of a pan... Doshi draws our relationships, both with the truth and with other people, with words that glitter sharp as shards of broken mirror
When does self-determination become selfishness? What can you learn from a bad mother? ...Sorrowful, sceptical and electrifyingly truthful about mothers and daughters (Shahidha Bari)
A sly, slippery, often heartbreaking novel about the role memory plays within families
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I couldn't really get into this book I am surprised it is shortlisted for the Booker ,for me there was little in it that was orginal .

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Bir sorun oluştu. Lütfen birkaç dakika sonra tekrar deneyin.
This is a meditation on memory it's function and also just through an accident of Birth family can have the potential to destroy you from the inside out rather than nurture.

This book is set in semi rural India and tells the story of a dysfunctional mother daughter relationship and how a diagnosis of dementia shifts the dynamic.

A poetic book beautifully performed

Bir sorun oluştu. Lütfen birkaç dakika sonra tekrar deneyin.
struggled to really get into this. some parts were almost gripping but most not so much

good in some places, but trails off in others

Bir sorun oluştu. Lütfen birkaç dakika sonra tekrar deneyin.
Narrator is great and the book is beautifully written but I found the storyline fairly uninspiring and slow.

Well narrated but storyline is slow

Bir sorun oluştu. Lütfen birkaç dakika sonra tekrar deneyin.
What a beautiful and painful journey . as an Indian women I found it relatable and so poignant. I can't recommend it enough ❤

breathtaking

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