{"product_id":"love-the-dark-days-9781845235352","title":"Love the Dark Days","description":"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 (Peepal Tree Press) 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eIra Mathur\u003c\/b\u003e is an Indian-born journalist and broadcaster, long resident in Trinidad. She has written over eight hundred columns on politics, economics, social, health and developmental issues, locally, regionally, and internationally.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Peepal Tree Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50453380628754,"sku":"9781845235352","price":19.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_14f65753-6c30-45ec-8066-8701506c8695.jpg?v=1729844937","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/love-the-dark-days-9781845235352","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}