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W.W. Norton
April 2014
On Sale: April 1, 2014
225 pages
ISBN: 0393060055
EAN: 9780393060058
Kindle: B00FQUDT66
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Fiction
Hailed as a "supreme storyteller" (Philadelphia
Inquirer) for his "cunning, dismaying and beautifully
conceived" fiction (New York Times), Akhil Sharma
is possessed of a narrative voice "as hypnotic as those
found in the pages of Dostoyevsky" (The Nation). In
his highly anticipated second novel, Family Life,
he delivers a story of astonishing intensity and emotional
precision. We meet the Mishra family in Delhi in 1978,
where eight-year-old Ajay and his older brother Birju play
cricket in the streets, waiting for the day when their plane
tickets will arrive and they and their mother can fly across
the world and join their father in America. America to the
Mishras is, indeed, everything they could have imagined and
more: when automatic glass doors open before them, they feel
that surely they must have been mistaken for somebody
important. Pressing an elevator button and the elevator
closing its doors and rising, they have a feeling of power
at the fact that the elevator is obeying them. Life is
extraordinary until tragedy strikes, leaving one brother
severely brain-damaged and the other lost and virtually
orphaned in a strange land. Ajay, the family’s younger son,
prays to a God he envisions as Superman, longing to find his
place 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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