Family Life (Thorndike Press Large Print Basic) - Hardcover

Sharma, Akhil

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1410470873 ISBN 13: 9781410470874

Publisher: Thorndike Press, 2014

Synopsis

Finally joining their father in America, Ajay and Birju enjoy their new, extraordinary life until tragedy strikes, leaving one brother incapacitated and the other practically orphaned in this strange land.

About this title

About the Author:

Akhil Sharma is the author of An Obedient Father, winner of the PEN/Hemingway Award and was a New York Times Notable Book of the Year. 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 is an assistant professor of English at Rutgers University, Newark.

Review:

Like Jhumpa Lahiri, Akhil Sharma writes of the Indian immigrant experience with great empathy and a complete lack of sentimentality. --Ann Packer

It will cut your heart to pieces but it will also make you rejoice. --Gary Shteyngart

A nearly perfect novel. --Edmund White

Sharma is a rare master. --Kiran Desai

A loving portrait, both painful and honest.

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. --Ann Packer"

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. --Gary Shteyngart"

This is a wonderful novel by an excellent writer. Akhil Sharma's unsentimentality has the effect of making his writing uncommonly touching. --Mohsin Hamid"

Family Life is a terse, devastating account of growing up as a brilliant outsider in American culture. It is a nearly perfect novel. --Edmund White"

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"

About this edition

• Publisher: Thorndike Press
• Publication date: 2014
• ISBN 10: 1410470873
• ISBN 13: 9781410470874
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 268