| Record Number |
835267 |
| ISBN |
9780241441510 (paperback) |
| Author |
Doshi, Avni, 1982- author. |
| Title |
Burnt sugar / Avni Doshi. |
| Publisher/Date |
London : Hamish Hamilton, an imprint of Penguin Books, 2020. |
| ©2020 |
| Pagination etc. |
228 pages ; 22 cm |
| Summary Note |
This is a novel about mothers and daughters, obsession and betrayal. 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, 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 woman who never cared for her. This is a love story and it is a story about betrayal. But not between lovers - between mother and daughter. Sharp as a blade and laced with caustic wit, Avni Doshi tests the limits of what we can know for certain about those we are closest to, and by extension, about ourselves. |
| Subject |
Mothers and daughters -- Fiction |
| Women -- Conduct of life -- Fiction |
| Parent and adult child -- Fiction |
| Betrayal -- Fiction |
| Domestic fiction. |
| Shelf Location |
F DOSH |
