Family Life

by Akhil Sharma and Akhil Sharma

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0393350606
• ISBN13: 9780393350609
• Release Date: February 2015
• Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
• Length: 240 Pages
• Weight: 0.47 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.3" x 8.2"