THE ANSWER IS TO BECOME SHAMELESS. HOW CAN YOU SHAME A SHAMELESS WOMAN? ''A one-woman literary-political movement'' INDEPENDENT ''Kandasamy''s work becomes more bold and exciting with each new book'' SKINNY ''There has never been a book quite like this'' IRISH TIMES Amrita has a past. In London, she goes by Amy - the cool girl who''s woker than you - but spends most days gallivanting with the other Little India rich kids. Until an AI porno of her ''forwarded many times'' by meddling WhatsApp aunties suddenly appears everywhere for millions to view. Within a day, she''s being publicly stoned in the digital town square by an anonymous operation of Hindu extremist incels. Together with her allies including her suitably poor and dark bestie, a fling nicknamed the Child Solider, and the insufferable trustafarian India, the unlikely trio take a page out of the Kardashian workbook and flip the script. Will it work, or has the bait unknowingly fed herself into the belly of an underground beast that will not rest until she, too, is below ground? How far are you actually willing to go for what you say you believe in? For readers of Fundamentally and I''M A FAN, Fieldwork as a Sex Object is a novel about having skin in the game, leaving no stone unthrown back at the incel manosphere and and its hand in the rise of fascism. -- ''Defies all expectations'' BERNARDINE EVARISTO ''So so good. One of the best of the year'' NIKESH SHUKLA ''Thank god for writing like this'' MAX PORTER

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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.

X | @meenakandasamy
Instagram | @k.a.n.d.a.s.a.m.y

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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