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Lessons in Love and Other Crimes - Elizabeth Chakrabarty

Lessons in Love and Other Crimes

Buch | Softcover
288 Seiten
2021
The Indigo Press (Verlag)
978-1-911648-22-2 (ISBN)
CHF 24,90 inkl. MwSt
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.

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.

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

Erscheinungsdatum
Sprache englisch
Maße 129 x 198 mm
Gewicht 259 g
Themenwelt Literatur Krimi / Thriller / Horror
Literatur Romane / Erzählungen
Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie
ISBN-10 1-911648-22-5 / 1911648225
ISBN-13 978-1-911648-22-2 / 9781911648222
Zustand Neuware
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