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THE WOMEN'S PRIZE-SHORTLISTED POET AND PROVOCATEUR An iconic, must-read novel of incels, influencers and AK-47s 'Best book of the year' NUSSAIBAH YOUNIS 'One of my books of the year' NICOLA STURGEON 'Fearless and brilliant' LEMN SISSAY 'One of the greats' NIKITA GILL 'A South Asian feminist Uncut Gems' ASH SARKAR 'Brilliant and brutal' PILAR QUINTANA '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

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This book is so so good. One of the best of the year -- Nikesh Shukla, praise for WHEN I HIT YOU A one-woman, agitprop literary-political movement * Independent * Thank god for writing like this. For books like this -- Max Porter, praise for EXQUISITE CADAVERS One of fiction's most fiery and unclassifiable polemicists * Guardian * Defies all expectations of how prose should be laid out on the page -- Bernardine Evaristo, praise for EXQUISITE CADAVERS Hers is exactly the sort of voice the Indian far right seeks to silence * Financial Times * Courageous and brave and disturbing and will stay with you for a long time * Stylist, praise for WHEN I HIT YOU * Kandasamy's work becomes more bold and exciting with each new book * The Skinny * There has never been a book quite like this * Irish Times * Meena Kandasamy is an incredibly beautiful poet, prophetic, powerful and empowering -- Salena Godden, author of Mrs Death Misses Death

A one-woman, agitprop literary-political movement * Independent * One of fiction's most fiery and unclassifiable polemicists * Guardian * Kandasamy's work becomes more bold and exciting with each new book * Skinny * It would take Carol Ann Duffy, Arundhati Roy and Salman Rushdie to match her infinite variety * Independent * There has never been a book quite like this * Irish Times * Thank god for writing like this -- Max Porter, praise for EXQUISITE CADAVERS This book is so so good. One of the best of the year -- Nikesh Shukla, praise for WHEN I HIT YOU

A one-woman, agitprop literary-political movement * Independent * One of the most urgent voices of tomorrow * Harper's Bazaar * One of fiction's most fiery and unclassifiable polemicists * Guardian * Kandasamy's work becomes more bold and exciting with each new book * Skinny * It would take Carol Ann Duffy, Arundhati Roy and Salman Rushdie to match her infinite variety * Independent * Kandasamy's prose is electric, at once brave and poetic and satirical * Paris Review * Thank god for writing like this -- Max Porter, author of Shy Meena Kandasamy is an incredibly beautiful poet, prophetic, powerful and empowering -- Salena Godden, author of Mrs Death Misses Death Only in her mid-30s, Meena Kandasamy is building a spiky, angular, fiercely singular corpus * India Today * The first thing that strikes you with Kandasamy, if you have not read her before, is that she a feather-light touch and yet complete control of her words * Asian Age *

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 * There will be poetic justice when this fierce and brilliant novel goes viral -- Lemn Sissay, author of My Name Is Why One of fiction's most fiery and unclassifiable * Guardian * A revolutionary book by one of the greatest writers of our era -- Nikita Gill, author of Hekate A nuanced narrative... Will simultaneously shock and reel in readers * Vogue * 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 one-woman, agitprop literary-political movement... It would take Carol Ann Duffy, Arundhati Roy and Salman Rushdie to match her infinite variety * Independent * Brilliant and brutal. In this fascinating novel, Kandasamy reveals with a delicate sort of mastery the many modes of oppression exercised against women -- Pilar Quintana, author of The Bitch 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 * 'A South Asian feminist Uncut Gems' -- Ash Sarkar

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DR MEENA KANDASAMY FRSL is a poet and provocateur who has spent two decades triggering the far right. She's been translated into over 20 languages. Her previous novel, When I Hit You, was shortlisted for the Women's Prize, Jhalak Prize and Hindu Literary Prize. It was also Book of the Year in the Financial Times, Observer, Daily Telegraph and Irish Times. Her poetry collection, Ms Militancy, went viral across South Asia. In 2022, PEN Germany awarded her a medal for being 'a fearless fighter for human rights'. Meena has two sons. X | @meenakandasamy Instagram | @k.a.n.d.a.s.a.m.y

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