作者简介

Avni Doshi was born in New Jersey in 1982 and is currently based in Dubai. She won the Tibor Jones South Asia Prize in 2013 and a Charles Pick Fellowship at the University of East Anglia in 2014. Her debut novel is published in India by Fourth Estate under the title Girl in White Cotton.

内容简介

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 a story about betrayal. But not between lovers - between mother and daughter. Sharp as a blade and laced with caustic wit, Burnt Sugar unpicks the slippery cords of memory and myth that bind two women together, and hold them apart.


Avni Doshi was born in New Jersey in 1982 and is currently based in Dubai. She won the Tibor Jones South Asia Prize in 2013 and a Charles Pick Fellowship at the University of East Anglia in 2014. Her debut novel is published in India by Fourth Estate under the title Girl in White Cotton.

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  • 浅浅
    看了一年终于看完了,因为读一个小段就会感觉很压抑所以只能一个一个小段的看,看完第一件事就是捐到流动图书馆里去,绝对不能只有我一个人郁结!01-21
  • 別有用心美少女
    閱讀過程不愉快哈哈the story too true to imagination at reality.I always fascinated by mother-daughter relationship & insane Asian familyship(Lucky me,family always loving each)(that not show off)The mother was pleased by her own abnormal even abit unsettled with it.Something at Doshi unconscious may have come up that knew who going to experience of times?06-04
  • 猫帆
    这是一场母女关系的自诉,女主的悲伤和痛苦在字句里优美的描写。原生家庭所带来的悲伤贯穿着整本书。文字优美,深刻,但是故事情节有些单调 03-19
  • Wendy X.
    咋说呢,有一丢丢形式大于内容的意思。有很多出色的地方,比如遣词造句之间那种凌厉和绝望,对于某些很复杂情绪的精准描绘,还有及其新颖的比喻等等。但是故事的情节也好,结构也好,到最后似乎彻底凌乱了,仿佛是从情绪一直延升到了情节,最后整个就是在一片光怪陆离之中,彻底迷失了。我可以理解那种又爱又恨的关系,但是看到最后似乎有些抓不住主旨的感觉。11-16

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