# Love the Dark Days

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- Book: [Love the Dark Days](https://www.bookquiver.com/ira-mathur/love-the-dark-days) ([Love the Dark Days.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/ira-mathur/love-the-dark-days.md))
- Authors: [Ira Mathur](https://www.bookquiver.com/ira-mathur)
- Publisher: Peepal Tree Press
- ISBN: 978-18-4523-535-2
- Pages: 222
- Published: 2022-07-07
- Language: en_US
- Binding: Softcover

## Description

A Guardian biography of the year 2022 Non-Fiction winner of the OCM Bocas Prize for Literature 2023 This 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, Love The Dark Days 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." 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