Sunjeev Sahota

Jul 7, 2024 | theguardian.com | Sunjeev Sahota

As Labour takes power for the first time in 14 years, the Guardian asked three writers to describe how their home towns had changed under Conservative rule – and the challenges now facing Keir Starmer. Today, Sunjeev Sahota describes what has happened to Chesterfield. I grew up in Chesterfield, which, according to a 2019 analysis by the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government, is Derbyshire’s second most deprived district (narrowly outpaced by Bolsover).

May 17, 2024 | corriere.it | Sunjeev Sahota

Mehar non è una quindicenne così obbediente da non cercare di scoprire quale dei tre fratelli sia suo marito. Già la mattina dopo il matrimonio, a dispetto del nervosismo che le fa tremare le mani, mescola quantità diverse di limone, aglio e spezie nell’insalata di cipolle che mangiano come contorno, e poi cerca di riconoscerne l’odore sull’uomo che viene a visitarla quella stessa notte, nascosto dal buio.

May 14, 2024 | scroll.in | Sunjeev Sahota

Nayan first became aware of Helen when the head of a homecare provider he’d been badgering for months finally turned up on his doorstep – here to, she said, assess their domestic context. “I’m sorry it’s taken so long. Everyone’s getting older these days!”“I feel like I’m on a hundred waiting lists but not moving up any one of them,” Nayan said. “It’s awful, isn’t it?” “Hello, Pyara,” Carole said in a voice on its tippy- toes. “How are you?

Apr 26, 2024 | theadvertiser.ie | Sunjeev Sahota

By Sunjeev SahotaAn impossible love, an unthinkable loss, and the desire to make a better world: the thrilling new state-of-the-nation novel from the Booker Prize-shortlisted author of The Year of the RunawaysNayan Olak hasn’t risked love since his young son died. Instead he has ploughed his grief and energy into his work at the union, trying to create the world he would have wanted for his boy.

Apr 16, 2024 | entertainment-mag.com | Sunjeev Sahota

THE SPOILED HEART, by Sunjeev SahotaThe titular spoiled heart of Sunjeev Sahota’s new novel is not spoiled in the sense of being overindulged. It is spoiled in the sense of being ruptured, through hardship. A tragedy in which a man comes to personal and profession ruin, the novel explores whether the ruination is self-inflicted or societal, and whether it is a degenerative condition or if some radical surgery can reverse it.