Lessons in Love and Other Crimes (eBook)

Elizabeth Chakrabarty (Autor)

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2021
The Indigo Press (Verlag)
978-1-911648-23-9 (ISBN)

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An innovative hybrid of auto-fiction, crime fiction and critical race memoir, this multi-layered yet compulsively readable novel is inspired by the author's real and extended experience of serious racial harassment, as well as exploring her search for justice and for love

Shortlisted for the Polari Prize 2022
Longlisted for the Desmond Elliott Prize 2022

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 of 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 contextualize the story within a lifetime of microaggressions, Lessons in Love and Other Crimes is a heartbreaking, hopeful, and compulsively readable novel about the most quotidian of crimes.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 15.4.2021
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Romane / Erzählungen
• ISBN-10: 1-911648-23-3 / 1911648233
• ISBN-13: 978-1-911648-23-9 / 9781911648239