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'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)
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Works about this Work
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Trek to Truth in the Jungle
2020
single work
review
— Appears in: The Weekend Australian , 2 May 2020; (p. 16)
— Review of Sweetness and Light 2020 single work novel'Connor is an Australian bloke in his early 30s living by his wits in India. He’s in India but he has knocked about the world for so long it could just as easily be Thailand, or Cambodia, or Colombia.' (Introduction)
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Trek to Truth in the Jungle
2020
single work
review
— Appears in: The Weekend Australian , 2 May 2020; (p. 16)
— Review of Sweetness and Light 2020 single work novel'Connor is an Australian bloke in his early 30s living by his wits in India. He’s in India but he has knocked about the world for so long it could just as easily be Thailand, or Cambodia, or Colombia.' (Introduction)
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Delhi,
cIndia,cSouth Asia, South and East Asia, Asia,
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Tamil Nadu,
cIndia,cSouth Asia, South and East Asia, Asia,