Family Life by Sharma, Akhil

Family Life

Known for his cunning, dismaying and beautifully conceived fiction (New York Times), Akhil Sharma delivers a story...
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Author: Akhil Sharma
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Family Life by Sharma, Akhil

Family Life

$311.22

Family Life

$311.22
Author: Akhil Sharma
Format: Hardcover
Language: English

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.



Author: Akhil Sharma
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Published: 04/07/2014
Pages: 224
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 0.81lbs
Size: 8.54h x 5.78w x 0.84d
ISBN: 9780393060058


Review Citation(s):
Library Journal Prepub Alert 11/01/2013 pg. 67
Publishers Weekly 12/09/2013
Library Journal 01/01/2014 pg. 103
Kirkus Reviews 01/15/2014
Booklist 03/15/2014 pg. 48
Entertainment Weekly 04/11/2014 pg. 70
New York Times Book Review 04/13/2014 pg. 26
New York Times Book Review 04/06/2014 pg. 1
People Weekly 04/28/2014 pg. 54
Kirkus Best Fiction 11/15/2014 pg. 46
NY Times Notable Bks of Year 12/07/2014 pg. 26
LJ Best Books of Year 12/01/2014 pg. 29
New York Times Book Review 12/14/2014 pg. 10
People 03/09/2015 pg. 52
New York Times Book Review 03/22/2015 pg. 28
Library Journal 11/01/2013

About the Author
Sharma, Akhil: -

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 University-Newark.



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