Fieldwork as a Sex Object. A novel of incels, influencers and AK-47s from the Women's Prize-shortlisted icon (en Inglés) - Meena Kandasamy

LIKE IF BRIDGET JONES MET KARL MARX: CLIT-LIT, AND CLASS CONFLICT.

''A one-woman literary-political movement'' INDEPENDENT

''Kandasamy''s work becomes more bold and exciting with each new book'' SKINNY

''There has never been a book quite like this'' IRISH TIMES

Amrita has a past. In London, she goes by Amy - the cool girl who''s woker than you - but spends most days gallivanting with the rest of Little India.

Until a deepfake porno of her ''forwarded many times'' by meddling WhatsApp aunties suddenly appears, all at once, everywhere. The next morning, she''s being publicly stoned in the digital town square by anonymous Hindu incels. Together with an ex nicknamed the Child Solider, her suitably lower-caste bestie Nirmala, and English trustafarian India, the unlikely triple alliance take a page out of the Kardashian playbook.

Will they succeed in flipping the public narrative, or has the bait unknowingly fed herself into the belly of an invisible beast that will not rest until she is below ground?

What are you prepared to risk for your beliefs? For readers of Fundamentally and watchers of Adolescence, Fieldwork as a Sex Object is an incendiary novel about having skin in the game, leaving no stone unthrown back at the rise of fascism.

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''Defies all expectations'' BERNARDINE EVARISTO

''So so good. One of the best of the year'' NIKESH SHUKLA

''Thank god for writing like this'' MAX PORTER

A novel of incels, influencers and AK-47s from the Women's Prize-shortlisted literary world's M.I.A.

'One of fiction's most fiery and unclassifiable' GUARDIAN
'A one-woman literary-political movement' INDEPENDENT
'Kandasamy becomes more bold and exciting with each new book' SKINNY

BRIDGET JONES MEETS SLAVOJ ZIZEK: YOU GET CHICK-LIT, AND CLASS STRUGGLE

The answer is to become shameless. How can you shame a shameless woman?

Amrita goes by Amy. Amy identifies as a Marxist. Nevermind her teenage stint on reality TV and millionaire daddy who runs Delhi High Court. It's only when an AI-generated deepfake porno of her 'forwarded many times' by misinformed WhatsApp aunties goes mega-viral that sh*t gets real.

The next day, Little Miss Ally's reputation is facing a public stoning in the digital town square so damaging it could take down a Kardashian. Her executioners? A hysteric bunch of virgins - except this anonymous cartel of keyboard warriors are on a merciless crusade to eradicate desi jezebels and Make India Hindu Again.

A literary provocation about authenticity where the online turns offline turns bloody, Fieldwork as a Sex Object is not a novel you read but a novel that reads you. It asks every one of us with skin in the game what we're prepared to put on the line for our principles.

PRAISE FOR MEENA KANDASAMY:

'Thank god for writing like this' MAX PORTER

'There has never been a book quite like this' IRISH TIMES

'So so good. One of the best of the year' NIKESH SHUKLA

'It would take Carol Ann Duffy, Salman Rushdie and Arundhati Roy to match her' INDEPENDENT