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Family Life by Akhil Sharma
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- Condition
- Good
- Seller Notes
- “Book is in very good condition. Former library book. See pictures. Thanks for looking.”
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Weight
- 0 lbs
- Product Group
- Book
- IsTextBook
- No
- ISBN
- 9780393060058
- EAN
- 9780393060058
- Book Title
- Family Life : a Novel
- Item Length
- 8.6in
- Publisher
- Norton & Company, Incorporated, w. w.
- Publication Year
- 2014
- Format
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- Item Height
- 0.9in
- Genre
- Fiction
- Topic
- Family Life, Literary, Asian American
- Item Width
- 5.9in
- Item Weight
- 13.1 Oz
- Number of Pages
- 224 Pages
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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.
Product Identifiers
Publisher
Norton & Company, Incorporated, w. w.
ISBN-10
0393060055
ISBN-13
9780393060058
eBay Product ID (ePID)
170145162
Product Key Features
Book Title
Family Life : a Novel
Format
Hardcover
Language
English
Topic
Family Life, Literary, Asian American
Publication Year
2014
Genre
Fiction
Number of Pages
224 Pages
Dimensions
Item Length
8.6in
Item Height
0.9in
Item Width
5.9in
Item Weight
13.1 Oz
Additional Product Features
Lc Classification Number
Ps3569.H34287f36
Reviews
Sharma spent 13 years writing this slim novel, and the effort shows in each lucid sentence and heartbreaking detail., Family Life is a terse, devastating account of growing up as a brilliant outsider in American culture. It is a nearly perfect novel., There's nothing like the pleasure of being devastated by a short novel. Like Jhumpa Lahiri, Akhil Sharma writes of the Indian immigrant experience with great empathy and a complete lack of sentimentality. Family Life is a dark and thrilling accomplishment by a wildly gifted writer., 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., There's nothing like the pleasure of being devastated by a short novel. Like Jhumpa Lahiri, Akhil Sharma writes of the Indian immigrant experience with great empathy and a complete lack of sentimentality. Family Life is a dark and thrilling accomplishment by a wildly gifted writer., 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., 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., A heartbreaking novel-from-life... [Sharma] takes after Hemingway, as each word of his brilliant novel feels deliberate, and each line is quietly moving., This uncompromising testament to the human cost of love is exhilarating in its intelligence and unerring perception., Family Life will cut your heart to pieces but it will also make you rejoice. The language, the humor, the sophistication, the empathy, the insight--all signal a new kind of literature about families and the bonds with which they hold us tight., I lost all track of time while I was reading it, and felt by the end that I'd returned from a great and often harrowing journey... To my own surprise, I found myself renewed after reading it, and imbued with a feeling of hope., With his subtly drawn point of view--recreating the child's perceptions but with the controlling sensibility of an adult intelligence--Sharma gives us a fully imagined world, both hard and consoling., This is a wonderful novel by an excellent writer. Akhil Sharma's unsentimentality has the effect of making his writing uncommonly touching., An unsentimental, powerful portrait of immigrant life from an author who has been compared to Dostoyevsky., Family Life is a terse, devastating account of growing up as a brilliant outsider in American culture. It is a nearly perfect novel., 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.
Copyright Date
2014
Lccn
2013-041222
Intended Audience
Trade
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