Fieldwork as a Sex Object
FROM THE WOMEN'S PRIZE-SHORTLISTED ICON
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.
A NEW NOVEL OF INCELS, INFLUENCERS AND AK-47S EVERYONE IS TALKING ABOUT
FROM THE WOMEN'S PRIZE-SHORTLISTED POET AND PROVOCATEUR
'A one-woman, agitprop literary-political movement' INDEPENDENT
I mute the audio before replaying it frame by frame - in dread, in desperation. I watch 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 bio omits a cameo on reality TV and millionaire daddy who runs the show at Delhi High Court).
When a deepfake porno of her 'forwarded many times' by WhatsApp aunties goes viral, the truth finally catches up. On her birthday, Amy is battling a stoning in the digital town square that could cancel even Kim Kardashian.
Her executioners? An unhinged cartel of virgins styling themselves after V for Vendetta - except these keyboard warriors are on a merciless crusade to eradicate desi jezebels and Make India Hindu Again.
A muscular work where the online turns offline turns bloody, this is not a novel you read but a novel that reads you. Fieldwork as a Sex Objectasks every one of us how much we're prepared to risk for our principles.
'Courageous and brave' STYLIST
'One of fiction's most fiery and unclassifiable' GUARDIAN
'Her prose is electric, at once brave and poetic and satirical' PARIS REVIEW
One of the most urgent voices of tomorrow * Harper's Bazaar *
A one-woman, agitprop literary-political movement * Independent *
Courageous and brave * Stylist *
One of fiction's most fiery and unclassifiable polemicists * Guardian *
Kandasamy's prose is electric, at once brave and poetic and satirical * Paris Review *
It would take Carol Ann Duffy, Arundhati Roy and Salman Rushdie to match her infinite variety * Independent *
Kandasamy's work becomes more bold and exciting with each new book * Skinny *
She has a gift for words that lights fires in others * The Hindu *
The first thing that strikes you with Kandasamy, if you have not read her before, is that she has a feather-light touch and yet complete control of her words * Asian Age *
ISBN: 9781840919448
Dimensions: unknown
Weight: unknown
240 pages