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Synopsis
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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A loving portrait, both painful and honest.
Deeply unnerving and gorgeously tender.
If you're the betting type, put money on it: National Book Award, Pulitzer, and the Book Critic Circle-thingy. Akhil's in the running for a hat trick.--Amie Barrodale
Surface simplicity and detachment are the hallmarks of this novel, but hidden within its small, unembellished container are great torrents of pity and grief. Sedulously scaled and crafted, it transforms the chaos of trauma into a glowing work of art.
Sharma is a rare master at charting the frailties and failures, the cruelties and rages, the altering moods and contradictions, whims and perversities of a tragic cast of characters. But this most unsentimental writer leaves the reader, finally and surprisingly, moved.--Kiran Desai
An immigrant story like no other: funny and dark, unrelenting and above all, true.--Nell Freudenberger
[F]ine and memorable.--Meg Wolitzer
An unsentimental, powerful portrait of immigrant life from an author who has been compared to Dostoyevsky.--Angela Carone
Sharma spent 13 years writing this slim novel, and the effort shows in each lucid sentence and heartbreaking detail.--Stephen Lee
Gorgeous.--Kim Hubbard
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Heart-wrenching and darkly comic, Akhil Sharma's Family Life - the Folio Prize-winning novel from the author of An Obedient Father - is the beautifully told story of a boy torn between duty and survival.
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- PublisherW. W. Norton & Company
- Publication date2014
- ISBN 10 0393060055
- ISBN 13 9780393060058
- BindingHardcover
- Number of pages224
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