Lessons in Love and Other Crimes

Häftad, Engelska, 2021

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Beskrivning

Tesya has reasons to feel hopeful after leaving her last job, where she was subjected to a series of anonymous hate crimes. Now she is back home in London to start a new lecturing position, and has begun an exciting, if tumultuous, love affair with the enigmatic Holly. But this idyllic new start quickly sours.Tesya finds herself victimized again at work by an unknown assailant, who subjects her to an insidious, sustained race hate crime. As her paranoia mounts, Tesya finds herself yearning for the most elemental desires: love, acceptance, and sanctuary. Her assailant, meanwhile, is recording his manifesto, and plotting his next steps.Inspired by the author’s personal experiences of hate crime and bookended with essays which contextualise the story within a lifetime of microaggressions, Lessons in Love and Other Crimes is a heart-breaking, hopeful, and compulsively readable novel about the most quotidian of crimes.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2021-04-15
Mått:129 x 198 x 20 mm
Vikt:259 g
Format:Häftad
Språk:Engelska
Serie:THE INDIGO PRESS
Antal sidor:288
Förlag:The Indigo Press
ISBN:9781911648222
Utmärkelser:Long-listed for Desmond Elliott Prize 2022 (UK)

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Mer om författaren

Elizabeth Chakrabarty is an interdisciplinary artist who uses creative and critical writing, besides performance, to explore themes of race, gender and sexuality. Her story Eurovision was short-listed for the Asian Writer Short Story Prize, published in Dividing Lines (Dahlia Publishing, 2017).Her shorter creative-critical work has appeared in English and in translation in New Writing Dundee, Women and the Arts, Glänta, and Espace Lesbien Rencontres et Revue d’Etudes Lesbiennes. She is a contributor to the anthology edited by Kirsty Gunn, Imagined Spaces, published in 2020 (Saraband). She lives in London.

Recensioner i media

69 new books by Black and POC authors out in 2021‘Centred on the fall-out of a race crime, this multi-layered literary debut is an occasionally heartbreaking read, and a story you won’t be able to get of your head.’https://www.cosmopolitan.com/uk/entertainment/g35042485/best-books-black-poc-authors-2021/?slide=58

Innehållsförteckning

Introduction: An Autobiography of Love and Racism Digression: How to Write About the Trauma of Racism 1 · Love in the Dark 2 · First Impressions 3 · Time's Wingèd Chariot 4 · Coffee and Other Drinks 5 · Shadows 6 · Blemishes 7 · What is Crime? 8 · Equivocation 9 · Synchronicity and Naming 10 · What is Love? 11 · Presence 12 · Futility and Guilt 13 · The Death Drive 14 · Coincidence and Coexistence 15 · Valentine's Day 16 · Familiarity and Fear 17 · Another Lesson, and Another Ending Epilogue: The Killing of a Once Sacred Institution