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The Giant Dark Sarvat Hasin

The Giant Dark By Sarvat Hasin

The Giant Dark by Sarvat Hasin

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The inaugural winner of the Mo Siewcharran Prize

The Giant Dark Summary

The Giant Dark: an award-winning novel about love and fame by Sarvat Hasin

'Heartbreaking, beautiful, epic. I loved it'
KIRAN MILLWOOD HARGRAVE
Author of The Mercies

'Blindingly brilliant . . . I cannot wait to read everything she writes'
DAISY JOHNSON
Author of Everything Under and Sisters

She was never meant to be an ordinary woman, reading out her history as if it belonged to us. She was more than that. She was the way of learning the world.

It was the last time most of us would see her but we didn't know that then.

Aida is the defining rock star of her age; her every move observed, examined and owned by a devoted, cultish fanbase. When she disappears without a trace into a complicated love affair they are determined to find her, uncover her truths and own her once more.

Aida and Ehsan reconnect after a decade apart, hoping to recapture the innocent, lost love of their youth. Before long, their connection is strained by secrets and jealousies and the past begins to blur with their present as they follow in the footsteps of mythic lovers before them.

The Giant Dark is an award-winning debut novel about love and fame. Inspired by the myth of Orpheus and Eurydice, it explores the consuming and devastating effects of using a lover as a muse.


'Rich and immersive . . . A book to lose yourself in'
JULIA ARMFIELD
Author of Salt Slow

'A brilliant, intoxicating reimagining. A heady brew of art, love and its cataclysmic impact'
IRENOSEN OKOJIE
Author of Nudibranch

The Giant Dark Reviews

Rich and immersive, The Giant Dark is a gorgeous novel about love and trauma, jealousy, art, and the mythologising effects of fame. A book to lose yourself in -- Julia Armfield
Blindingly brilliant. Hasin is a force to be reckoned with and I cannot wait to read everything she writes -- Daisy Johnson
A brilliant, intoxicating reimagining. A heady brew of art, love and its cataclysmic impact -- Irenosen Okojie
A magical and dark story of lovers and muses, jealousy and secrets, and music, brilliantly told in Hasin's precise and devastating prose -- Nikesh Shukla

The Giant Dark is captivating and gorgeous. A sensual treat of a novel about youth, euphoria and the ways we chain ourselves to other people. Hasin creates a world where passion, love and duty mingle with artifice and false promise, and brings into that world two lovers whose combustible mix of desire and nostalgia will result in tragedy.
It's a book to read when you're up alone late at night, missing people. When you've forgotten what it's like to dance in a crowd, to hold someone's hand, to lose yourself in another person, read this book.

-- Rory Gleeson

About Sarvat Hasin

Sarvat Hasin is a writer. She grew up in Pakistan and now lives in London and works at the Almeida Theatre. She studied politics and international relations at Royal Holloway and has a Master's in Creative Writing from the University of Oxford. Her first novel, This Wide Night, was published by Penguin India and longlisted for the DSC Prize for South Asian Literature. Her second book, You Can't Go Home Again, was published in 2018 and featured in Vogue India's and the Hindu's end of year lists. She won the Moth Writer's Retreat Bursary in 2018 and the Mo Siewcharran Prize in 2019. Her essays and poetry have appeared in publications such as Outsiders, the Mays Anthology, English PEN and Harper's Bazaar.

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NGR9780349701745
9780349701745
0349701741
The Giant Dark: an award-winning novel about love and fame by Sarvat Hasin
Sarvat Hasin
New
Hardback
Little, Brown Book Group
20210708
368
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