One of The Atlantic's Great American NovelsWinner of the 2016 International Dublin Literary Award 'Gorgeously tender at its core…beautiful, heartstopping…Family Life really blazes.' —Sonali Dera
Family Life by Akhil Sharma First Edition Signed. Price:$100.00 Qty: Description New York, NY: W. W. Norton (2014) First Edition. Signed. Fine in dust jacket. Known for his "cunning, dismaying and beautifully conceived" fiction (New York Times), Akhil Sharma delivers a story of ...
Family Life – Akhil SharmaBy Hannahreadsstuff The Blurb: Ajay, eight years old, spends his afternoons playing cricket in the streets of Delhi with his brother Birju, four years older. They are about to leave for shiny new life in America. Ajay anticipates, breathlessly, a world of jet...
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‘I also tried holding my breath for a moment longer than necessary and asking God to give the unused breaths to Birju.’ Akhil Sharma in Granta 97.
“What kind of life is this?” he would ask. “What did you do to me when you got me a wife like this?” Much later, Lakshman understood that his grandmother had to be consulted because, since his mother belonged to a family with which his father’s family did business, there would...
Some Lesser Known Facts About Akhil Akkineni At the time his mother was pregnant, his mother and father were expecting a daughter. They had even decided that
Well, here’s the book you read. This is a short-story collection meant to be devoured slowly with an open mind. This was my first book by Akhil Sharma, and I’m sure that I’ll be reading his auto-biographical account ‘Family Life’ soon which has been recommended by many. ...
An interview with Indian-American author Akhil Sharma is presented. When asked about the most important thing he learned about writing, he replies that the most important thing he is trying to learn is perfectionism. He further reveals that how perfectionism has helped us to plot the weird ...