{"product_id":"9781845235352","title":"Love the Dark Days","description":"\u003ch3\u003eAuthor:  Mathur, Ira \u003c\/h3\u003e\u003ch4\u003eMemoirs\u003c\/h4\u003e\u003ch5\u003ePublished on 7 July 2022 by Peepal Tree Press Ltd in the United Kingdom.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePaperback | 222 pages\u003cbr\u003e161 x 234 x 24 | 360g\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/h5\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA Guardian biography of the year 2022Non-Fiction winner of the OCM Bocas Prize for Literature 2023This frank, fearless and multi-layered debut centres on a privileged but dysfunctional Indian family, with themes of empire, migration, race, and gender. The Victorian India elephant in the room in Ira Mathur's silk-swathed memoir is in chains. By the time calypso replaces the Raj in post-colonial Trinidad, the chains are off three generations of daughters and mothers in a family in their New World exile. But they are still stuck in place and enduring insecurity and threats, seen and unseen. Set in India, England, Trinidad and a weekend in St Lucia, with Nobel Laureate Derek Walcott, Love the Dark Days follows the story of a girl, Poppet, of mixed middle-class Hindu and Elite Muslim parentage from post- independent India to her family's migration to post-colonial Trinidad. Profoundly raw, unflinching, layered, but not without threads of humour and perceived absurdity, Love the Dark Days reassembles the story of a disintegrating Empire.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e'Reads like a fictional family saga as it leaps back and forth in time against a backdrop of patriarchal hegemony and a collapsing empire' - Guardian Best Biographies of 2022'Compelling' The Observer'A gem of a memoir... Monique Roffey is spot on when she calls it a blaze of a book' The Bookseller\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Bookshop Mold","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46924176884010,"sku":"9781845235352","price":12.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0277\/7802\/3522\/files\/9781845235352.jpg?v=1773926377","url":"https:\/\/www.mold-bookshop.co.uk\/products\/9781845235352","provider":"The Bookshop. Mold.","version":"1.0","type":"link"}