Fieldwork as a Sex Object

THE WOMEN'S PRIZE-SHORTLISTED POET AND PROVOCATEUR<BR>An iconic, must-read novel of incels, influencers and AK-47s<BR>'Best book of the year' NUSSAIBAH YOUNIS<BR>'One of my books of the year' NICOLA STURGEON<BR>'Fearless and brilliant' LEMN SISSAY<BR>'One of the greats' NIKITA GILL<BR>'A South Asian feminist Uncut Gems' ASH SARKAR<BR>'Brilliant and brutal' PILAR QUINTANA<BR>'A tour de force' NIKESH SHUKLA<BR><BR>I mute the audio. I replay the video four times.<BR>It is not me. It is my fucking face.<BR><BR>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).<BR><BR>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.<BR><BR>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.<BR><BR>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?<BR><BR>'Fieldwork as a Sex Object will simultaneously shock and reel you in' VOGUE<BR>'One of the most urgent voices of tomorrow' HARPER'S BAZAAR<BR>'Kandasamy is fearless on the page' ESQUIRE<BR>'A one-woman, agitprop literary-political movement' INDEPENDENT<BR>'One of fiction's most fiery and unclassifiable' GUARDIAN