Love the Dark Days
Seiten
2022
Peepal Tree Press Ltd (Verlag)
978-1-84523-535-2 (ISBN)
Peepal Tree Press Ltd (Verlag)
978-1-84523-535-2 (ISBN)
Love the Dark Days follows the story of a girl, Poppet, of mixed middle-class Hindu and Elite Muslim parentage from post- independent India to her family's migration to post-colonial Trinidad. Unflinching, layered, and not without threads of humour and perceived absurdity, Ira Mathur reassembles the story of a disintegrating Empire.
A Guardian biography of the year 2022
Non-Fiction winner of the OCM Bocas Prize for Literature 2023
This frank, fearless and multi-layered debut centres on a privileged but dysfunctional Indian family, with themes of empire, migration, race, and gender. The Victorian India elephant in the room in Ira Mathur's silk-swathed memoir is in chains. By the time calypso replaces the Raj in post-colonial Trinidad, the chains are off three generations of daughters and mothers in a family in their New World exile. But they are still stuck in place and enduring insecurity and threats, seen and unseen.
Set in India, England, Trinidad and a weekend in St Lucia, with Nobel Laureate Derek Walcott, Love the Dark Days follows the story of a girl, Poppet, of mixed middle-class Hindu and Elite Muslim parentage from post- independent India to her family's migration to post-colonial Trinidad. Profoundly raw, unflinching, layered, but not without threads of humour and perceived absurdity, Love the Dark Days reassembles the story of a disintegrating Empire.
"Reads like a fictional family saga as it leaps back and forth in time against a backdrop of patriarchal hegemony and a collapsing empire" - Guardian Best Biographies of 2022
"Compelling" The Observer
"A gem of a memoir... Monique Roffey is spot on when she calls it a blaze of a book" The Bookseller
A Guardian biography of the year 2022
Non-Fiction winner of the OCM Bocas Prize for Literature 2023
This frank, fearless and multi-layered debut centres on a privileged but dysfunctional Indian family, with themes of empire, migration, race, and gender. The Victorian India elephant in the room in Ira Mathur's silk-swathed memoir is in chains. By the time calypso replaces the Raj in post-colonial Trinidad, the chains are off three generations of daughters and mothers in a family in their New World exile. But they are still stuck in place and enduring insecurity and threats, seen and unseen.
Set in India, England, Trinidad and a weekend in St Lucia, with Nobel Laureate Derek Walcott, Love the Dark Days follows the story of a girl, Poppet, of mixed middle-class Hindu and Elite Muslim parentage from post- independent India to her family's migration to post-colonial Trinidad. Profoundly raw, unflinching, layered, but not without threads of humour and perceived absurdity, Love the Dark Days reassembles the story of a disintegrating Empire.
"Reads like a fictional family saga as it leaps back and forth in time against a backdrop of patriarchal hegemony and a collapsing empire" - Guardian Best Biographies of 2022
"Compelling" The Observer
"A gem of a memoir... Monique Roffey is spot on when she calls it a blaze of a book" The Bookseller
IRA MATHUR is an Indian-born Trinidadian award-winning multimedia journalist. Her debut, Love The Dark Days (Peepal Tree Press) was listed by The Guardian among the best biographies of 2022. In 2021 she was longlisted for the Bath Novel Award for her unpublished novel Touching Dr Simone. Mathur gained diplomas in creative writing at the University of East Anglia/Guardian with Gillian Slovo and James Scudamore and The Faber Academy with Maggie Gee. She is currently the Trinidad Guardian's longest-running columnist and has freelanced for The Guardian (UK) and the BBC. She has degrees in Literature and Law and a Masters in International Journalism. Her body of journalism is available on www.irasroom.org
| Erscheinungsdatum | 04.07.2022 |
|---|---|
| Verlagsort | Yorkshire |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 156 x 236 mm |
| Themenwelt | Literatur ► Biografien / Erfahrungsberichte |
| Literatur ► Briefe / Tagebücher | |
| ISBN-10 | 1-84523-535-5 / 1845235355 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-1-84523-535-2 / 9781845235352 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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