Family Life, Paperback
Descriere
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.
Despre autor
Akhil Sharma este un autor indo-american și profesor de scriere creativă. Primul său roman publicat, Un tată ascultător, a câștigat premiul PEN/Hemingway în 2001. Al doilea, Viața de familie, a câștigat Premiul Folio în 2015 și Premiul Internațional Dublin Literary în 2016.
