Family Life: A Novel

Name: Family Life: A Novel
Brand: WW Norton & Co
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★★★★★

English

By (author): Akhil Sharma

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 moreuntil 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 of a boy torn between duty and his own survival.

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Weight: 370g
Dimensions: 150 x 218mm
Publication Date: 29 Apr 2014
Publisher: WW Norton & Co
Publication City/Country: United States
Language: English
ISBN13: 9780393060058

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 English at Rutgers UniversityNewark.