Burnt sugar / Avni Doshi.
Publication details: London : Hamish Hamilton, an imprint of Penguin Books, 2020.Description: 228 pages ; 22 cmISBN:- 024144151X
- 9780241441510
- 813.6 23
- PS3604.O84 B87 2020
- Booker Prize, 2020 longlisted.
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Book | Melbourne Athenaeum Library | Fiction | DOS | Available | 061792 |
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Antara has never understood her mother Tara's decisions - walking out on her marriage to follow a guru, living on the streets like a beggar, shacking up with an unknown artist, rebelling against society's expectations. But when Tara starts losing her memory, Antara searches for a way to make peace with their shared past, a past that haunts them both. As she relives her childhood in Pune in the eighties, Catholic boarding school in the hills of Maharashtra, and her years as a young artist in Bombay, Antara comes up against her own fears and neuroses, realizing she might not be so different from Tara after all.
Booker Prize, 2020 longlisted.