Family Life - Hardcover

Sharma, Akhil

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0393060055 ISBN 13: 9780393060058

Verlag: W W NORTON & CO, 2014

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If it s tragedy, why do I remember the jokes with such fondness? Most reviews of Family Life have adequately conveyed its harrowing cruelties. But since this Slate/Whiting project is intended to steer readers toward second novels they may have overlooked, I d like to point out that beyond the sadness, the novel contains a deep, nourishing reservoir of grim humor, thanks to Ajay s deadpan and dead-eyed perceptions. --Colson Whitehead"

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

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• Verlag: W W NORTON & CO
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2014
• ISBN 10: 0393060055
• ISBN 13: 9780393060058
• Einband: Tapa dura
• Anzahl der Seiten: 218