Fieldwork as a Sex Object

<h4><strong>THE WOMEN'S PRIZE-SHORTLISTED POET AND PROVOCATEUR</strong></h4><h4><strong>An iconic, must-read novel of incels, influencers and AK-47s</strong></h4><strong>'Best book of the year' NUSSAIBAH YOUNIS'I'm a fan' NICOLA STURGEON'Fearless and brilliant' LEMN SISSAY'One of the greats' NIKITA GILL'A tour de force' NIKESH SHUKLA</strong><em>I mute the audio. I replay the video four times.</em><em>It is not me. It </em>is<em> my fucking face.</em>Amrita Chaturvedi goes by Amy. Amy identifies as a communist on Twitter (her profile omits a stint on <em>Big Brother</em> and a billionaire daddy running the show at the High Court of Delhi).Then reality hits: a <strong>deepfake</strong> 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 <em>V for Vendetta</em> - except these keyboard warriors are on a ruthless crusade to wipe out desi jezebels and Make India Hindu Again.<strong>A muscular, monumental work of internet literature in which the online turns offline turns bloody, <em>Fieldwork as a Sex Object</em> is not a novel you read but a novel that reads you: what are you prepared to risk for what you claim to believe?</strong><strong>'<em>Fieldwork as a Sex Object</em> will simultaneously shock and reel you in' <em>VOGUE</em>'One of the most urgent voices of tomorrow' <em>HARPER'S BAZAAR</em>'Kandasamy is fearless on the page' <em>ESQUIRE</em>'A one-woman, agitprop literary-political movement' <em>INDEPENDENT</em>'One of fiction's most fiery and unclassifiable' <em>GUARDIAN</em></strong>