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Family Life: A Novel
Akhil Sharma
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Description for Family Life: A Novel
hardcover. Named one of the Ten Best Books of 2014 by the New York Times Book Review and New York Magazine "Gorgeously tender at its core beautiful, heartstopping Family Life really blazes." Sonali Deraniyagala, New York Times Book Review" Num Pages: 224 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 218 x 149 x 22. Weight in Grams: 370.
Known for his "cunning, dismaying and beautifully conceived" fiction (New York Times), Akhil Sharma delivers a story of astonishing intensity and emotional precision.
Growing up in Delhi in 1978, eight-year-old Ajay Mishra and his older brother Birju play cricket on the streets, eagerly waiting for the day they can join their father in America. America to the Mishras is, indeed, everything they could have imagined and more—until tragedy strikes. Young Ajay prays to a God he envisions as Superman, searching for direction amid the ruins of his family's new life. Heart-wrenching and darkly funny, Family Life is a universal story ... Read more
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Format
Hardback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
WW Norton United States
Number of pages
224
Condition
New
Number of Pages
224
Place of Publication
New York, United States
ISBN
9780393060058
SKU
V9780393060058
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99-15
About Akhil Sharma
Akhil Sharma is the author of Family Life, a New York Times Best Book of the Year and the winner of the International DUBLIN Literary Award and the Folio Prize. His writing has appeared in The New Yorker, The Atlantic, Best American Short Stories, and O. Henry Award Stories. A native of Delhi, he lives in New York City and teaches ... Read more
Reviews for Family Life: A Novel
"Deeply unnerving and gorgeously tender."
New York Times Book Review "There's nothing like the pleasure of being devastated by a short novel. Like Jhumpa Lahiri, Akhil Sharma writes of the Indian immigrant experience with great empathy and a complete lack of sentimentality. Family Life is a dark and thrilling accomplishment by a wildly gifted writer."
Ann Packer "Family ... Read more
New York Times Book Review "There's nothing like the pleasure of being devastated by a short novel. Like Jhumpa Lahiri, Akhil Sharma writes of the Indian immigrant experience with great empathy and a complete lack of sentimentality. Family Life is a dark and thrilling accomplishment by a wildly gifted writer."
Ann Packer "Family ... Read more