Fieldwork as a Sex Object
'One of my books of the year' NICOLA STURGEON
Format:Hardback
Publisher:Octopus Publishing Group
Publishing:21st May '26
£16.99
This title is due to be published on 21st May, and will be despatched as soon as possible.

An iconic, must-read novel of incels, influencers and AK-47s
'Best book of the year' NUSSAIBAH YOUNIS
'I'm a fan' NICOLA STURGEON
'Fearless and brilliant' LEMN SISSAY
'One of the greats' NIKITA GILL
'A tour de force' NIKESH SHUKLA
I mute the audio. I replay the video four times.
It is not me. It is my fucking face.
Amrita Chaturvedi goes by Amy. Amy identifies as a communist on Twitter (her profile omits a stint on Big Brother and a billionaire daddy running the show at the High Court of Delhi).
Then reality hits: a deepfake porno of her forwarded around by WhatsApp aunties goes viral. On her birthday, Amy wakes to a stoning in the digital town square that could cancel the likes of Kim Kardashian.
Her executioners? A cartel of unhinged virgins styling themselves after V for Vendetta - except these keyboard warriors are on a ruthless crusade to wipe out desi jezebels and Make India Hindu Again.
A muscular, monumental work of internet literature in which the online turns offline turns bloody, Fieldwork as a Sex Object is not a novel you read but a novel that reads you: what are you prepared to risk for what you claim to believe?
'Fieldwork as a Sex Object will simultaneously shock and reel you in' VOGUE
'One of the most urgent voices of tomorrow' HARPER'S BAZAAR
'Kandasamy is fearless on the page' ESQUIRE
'A one-woman, agitprop literary-political movement' INDEPENDENT
'One of fiction's most fiery and unclassifiable' GUARDIAN
One of my books of the year. I loved her last novel When I Hit You, but Fieldwork as a Sex Object is even better. Brave, bold, original and brilliantly written -- Nicola Sturgeon, former Scottish First Minister
The best book of the year. Fieldwork as a Sex Object is compulsive, confronting, wild and utterly original -- Nussaibah Younis, Women's Prize-shortlisted author of Fundamentally
One of the most urgent voices of tomorrow * Harper's Bazaar *
A revolutionary book by one of the greatest writers of our era -- Nikita Gill, author of Hekate
One of fiction's most fiery and unclassifiable * Guardian *
An uncompromising, unrelenting and unbelievable tour-de-force that nails far-right incels to the wall by their nutsacks -- Nikesh Shukla, author of The Good Immigrant
A nuanced narrative... Will simultaneously shock and reel in readers * Vogue *
There will be poetic justice when this fierce and brilliant novel goes viral -- Lemn Sissay, author of My Name Is Why
A one-woman, agitprop literary-political movement... It would take Carol Ann Duffy, Arundhati Roy and Salman Rushdie to match her infinite variety * Independent *
Kandasamy is fearless on the page * Esquire *
Her prose is electric, at once brave and poetic and satirical * Paris Review *
Kandasamy's work becomes bolder and more exciting with each new book * Skinny *
ISBN: 9781840919448
Dimensions: 218mm x 144mm x 24mm
Weight: 340g
240 pages