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.
Heart-wrenching and darkly funny, Family Life is a universal story of a boy torn between duty and his own survival
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Family Life uses a first-person narrative, a literary strategy that is employed in many novels by Asian American authors like Charles Yu, Bich Minh Nyugen, and Maxine Hong Kingston. It is special in the category of Asian American fiction in that the main na...
評分Family Life uses a first-person narrative, a literary strategy that is employed in many novels by Asian American authors like Charles Yu, Bich Minh Nyugen, and Maxine Hong Kingston. It is special in the category of Asian American fiction in that the main na...
評分Family Life uses a first-person narrative, a literary strategy that is employed in many novels by Asian American authors like Charles Yu, Bich Minh Nyugen, and Maxine Hong Kingston. It is special in the category of Asian American fiction in that the main na...
評分Family Life uses a first-person narrative, a literary strategy that is employed in many novels by Asian American authors like Charles Yu, Bich Minh Nyugen, and Maxine Hong Kingston. It is special in the category of Asian American fiction in that the main na...
評分Family Life uses a first-person narrative, a literary strategy that is employed in many novels by Asian American authors like Charles Yu, Bich Minh Nyugen, and Maxine Hong Kingston. It is special in the category of Asian American fiction in that the main na...
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獲得Folio和IMPAC兩大文學奬的小說，喜歡主觀性、'tell, don't show'的敘事筆觸，但故事有點太沉痛，幾乎見不到一絲陽光。
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评分Don't quite see the point of this book.
评分此書真是英語閱讀障礙者的福音，我花瞭一天一口氣就看完瞭整本小說，簡直行雲流水…故事的前五分之一充斥瞭小清新的少年日常生活，直到哥哥齣瞭事，氣氛直轉而下，變得愈來愈沉重。作者結閤瞭主人公青少年時期敏感的心理活動，將瑣碎的日常生活刻畫的很細膩。書中還多處描寫瞭印度人的宗教信仰和習俗，令人耳目一新。
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