- Booker Prize 2020 · Shortlist
Girl in White Cotton
Burnt Sugar
Avni Doshi (born 1982)
English editions
Written in EnglishBurnt Sugar
The Overlook Press · United States · 1 March 2022 · Paperback · 240 pages
Girl in White Cotton
Fourth Estate · India · 25 August 2019
Burnt Sugar
Hamish Hamilton · United Kingdom · 30 July 2020
Burnt Sugar
The Overlook Press · United States · 4 May 2021 · Hardcover
Burnt Sugar
Penguin · United Kingdom · 3 June 2021 · Paperback · 240 pages
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When she was young, Tara rejected every expectation placed on a good Indian woman. She left a loveless arranged marriage to live in an ashram, spent a spell begging, largely to spite her wealthy parents, and pursued a scruffy, homeless artist for years, always dragging her small daughter along. Now Tara is old and her memory is going: she gets the maid's wages wrong and leaves the gas burning all night. Her grown daughter, who tells the story, must now care for a woman who gave her little care, and as she does, the memories and myths that bind them start to unravel.
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- Novel
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- Family (assigned by AI)
- Set in
- India
- First published
- 2019
- Author's age
- 37 when first published
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9789353571382 (Fourth Estate, India)
9780241441510 (Hamish Hamilton, United Kingdom)
9781419752926 (The Overlook Press, United States)
9780241989142 (Penguin, United Kingdom)
9781419752933 (The Overlook Press, United States)
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