Fieldwork as a Sex Object
'Best book of the year' NUSSAIBAH YOUNIS
Published on 21. May 2026
240 pages
978-1-84091-946-2 (ISBN)
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THE WOMEN'S PRIZE-SHORTLISTED POET AND PROVOCATEUR
An iconic, must-read novel of incels, influencers and AK-47s
'Best book of the year' NUSSAIBAH YOUNIS
'One of my books of the year' NICOLA STURGEON
'Fearless and brilliant' LEMN SISSAY
'One of the greats' NIKITA GILL
'A South Asian feminist Uncut Gems' ASH SARKAR
'Brilliant and brutal' PILAR QUINTANA
'A tour de force' NIKESH SHUKLA
I mute the audio. I replay the video four times.
It is not me. It is my fucking face.
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).
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.
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.
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?
'Fieldwork as a Sex Object will simultaneously shock and reel you in' VOGUE
'One of the most urgent voices of tomorrow' HARPER'S BAZAAR
'Kandasamy is fearless on the page' ESQUIRE
'A one-woman, agitprop literary-political movement' INDEPENDENT
'One of fiction's most fiery and unclassifiable' GUARDIAN
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DR MEENA KANDASAMY FRSL is a poet and provocateur who has spent two decades triggering the far right. She's been translated into over 20 languages. Her previous novel, When I Hit You, was shortlisted for the Women's Prize, Jhalak Prize and Hindu Literary Prize. It was also Book of the Year in the Financial Times, Observer, Daily Telegraph and Irish Times. Her poetry collection, Ms Militancy, went viral across South Asia. In 2022, PEN Germany awarded her a medal for being 'a fearless fighter for human rights'.
Meena has two sons.
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