Buy this book on-line Akhil Sharma : Family LifeW. W. Norton & Company, New York, 2014 ISBN 0393060055
8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. K5 - A first edition (stated with complete numberline) hardcover book SIGNED and inscribed by Akhil Sharma to previous owner on the title page in very good condition in very good dust jacket. Dust jacket has some wrinkling on the edges and corners, dust jacket and book have some bumped corners, light discoloration and shelf wear. Heart-wrenching and darkly funny, Family Life is a universal story of a boy torn between duty and his own survival. 8.5"x5.75", 218 pages. Satisfaction Guaranteed. 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.. Book Condition: Very Good. Binding: Hardcover. Jacket: Very Good Click here for full details of this book, to ask a question or to buy it on-line. Bibliophile Bookbase probably offers multiple copies of Akhil Sharma : Family Life. Click here to select from a complete list of available copies of this book. Bibliophile Bookbase lists over 5 million books, maps and prints including collectables, rare books, first editions, livres illustrées and out of print books. Bibliophile Bookbase for antiquarian books, maps and prints. |