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Sweetness and Light
Camberwell
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Hamish Hamilton
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2020
18608752
2020
single work
novel
thriller
'India, monsoon season.
'Connor, an Australian expat with a brutal past, spends his time running low-stakes scams on tourists in a sleepy beachside town. Sasha, an American in search of spiritual guidance, heads to an isolated ashram in the hope of mending a broken heart.
'When one of Connor's grifts goes horribly wrong, it sets in motion a chain of events that brings the two lost souls together - and as they try to navigate a world of gangsters, gurus and secret agendas, they begin to realise that within the ashram's utopian community, something is deeply, deeply wrong . . .
'Racing from the beaches of Goa to the streets of Delhi to the jungles of Tamil Nadu, Sweetness and Light is an intoxicating, unsettling story of the battle between light and dark, love and lust, morality and corruption. This is an explosive and unforgettable novel that confirms Liam Pieper's place as one of Australia's finest, sharpest writers.' (Publication summary)
Works about this Work
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Book Review : Sweetness and Light
2020
single work
review
— Appears in: The Adelaide Review , May no. 483 2020;
— Review of Sweetness and Light 2020 extract novel'Liam Pieper’s latest novel sees two white westerners – an Australian hustler and an American divorcee in an ‘Eat Pray Love’ phase – cross paths in the middle of India. But this is not an exoticised, escapist travelogue.'
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Transgressions : A Character-Driven Novel
2020
single work
review
— Appears in: Australian Book Review , May no. 421 2020; (p. 39)
— Review of Sweetness and Light 2020 extract novel'Connor is a thirty-something Australian who bides his time grifting in India. His targets are Western female tourists, whom he describes as ‘talent’, and whom he seduces and fleeces. Connor seems to be escaping something, most likely the upbringing in which his masculinity and personal safety were constantly called into question.' (Introduction)
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I Used to Live for Travel – In Fact, I Just Wrote the Book on It. But There’s No Running Away Now
2020
single work
column
— Appears in: The Guardian Australia , 26 March 2020;
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Transgressions : A Character-Driven Novel
2020
single work
review
— Appears in: Australian Book Review , May no. 421 2020; (p. 39)
— Review of Sweetness and Light 2020 extract novel'Connor is a thirty-something Australian who bides his time grifting in India. His targets are Western female tourists, whom he describes as ‘talent’, and whom he seduces and fleeces. Connor seems to be escaping something, most likely the upbringing in which his masculinity and personal safety were constantly called into question.' (Introduction)
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Book Review : Sweetness and Light
2020
single work
review
— Appears in: The Adelaide Review , May no. 483 2020;
— Review of Sweetness and Light 2020 extract novel'Liam Pieper’s latest novel sees two white westerners – an Australian hustler and an American divorcee in an ‘Eat Pray Love’ phase – cross paths in the middle of India. But this is not an exoticised, escapist travelogue.'
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I Used to Live for Travel – In Fact, I Just Wrote the Book on It. But There’s No Running Away Now
2020
single work
column
— Appears in: The Guardian Australia , 26 March 2020;
