A Life of Adventure and Delight
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A Life of Adventure and Delight

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eBook - ePub

A Life of Adventure and Delight

About this book

Akhil Sharma's new collection is a remarkable achievement. These tender, elegant stories - each of which was first published in the New Yorker - all explore the unpredictability of human emotion. In the sleek, minimalist prose for which his prize-winning novel Family Life was acclaimed, Sharma skilfully reveals the obstacles we face in making meaningful relationships. A striking fusion of fiction and memoir, A Life of Adventure and Delight is unflinching in exposing the burdens of trauma, infidelity, and mortality. Whether in New York or Delhi, Sharma's protagonists are always discovering what it really means to be mothers and daughters, sons and lovers, husbands and wives. Painfully intimate, this is a tour de force from a unique literary voice.

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Information

Publisher
Faber & Faber
Year
2017
eBook ISBN
9780571326334
Edition
0

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Landing Page
  3. Title Page
  4. Dedication
  5. Contents
  6. Cosmopolitan
  7. Surrounded by Sleep
  8. We Didn’t Like Him
  9. If You Sing Like That for Me
  10. A Life of Adventure and Delight
  11. A Heart Is Such a Heavy Thing
  12. You Are Happy?
  13. The Well
  14. Acknowledgements
  15. About the Author
  16. Also by the Author
  17. Copyright