Family Life

Family Life  (English, Paperback, Sharma Akhil)

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    • Language: English
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Publisher: Penguin Random House India
    • Genre: Literary Criticism
    • ISBN: 9780143422907, 0143422901
    • Edition: 2015
    • Pages: 240
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    It is the late 1970s. India has been wrenched by the Emergency. Ajay and Birju are taken by their parents to America so they can have a better life. In New York, their flat is tiny, the students at their school racist. The brothers forge ahead, pushed on by their ambitious parents. But then everything changes. Birju has an accident that leaves him brain-damaged, and the world around Ajay collapses. His father begins to drink, his mother takes to prayer, and it is Ajay who must now bear all the guilty weight of their love.
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    Publication Year
    • 2015 May
    Book Type
    • Fiction Book
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    • 198 mm
    Length
    • 129 mm
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    Beautiful narrative!

    The writer writes so well from the eyes of a child, till he is an adult. For me who has migrated from Hindi to english only a couple of year back, the english was very easy to understand ( I didn't have to refer to a dictionary for difficult words). English even easier than Vikram seth or Jhumpa Lahiri.

    The description specially when he is a child are so apt and straight from the heart. The characters are well etched, and you feel a part of his sadness and triumphs! The narration is lucid. ...
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    Jyoti Joshi

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    A saga of despair, tenderness and a hole in the heart

    This is an interesting book fit for a lazy weekend. In this book the protagonist Ajay Mishra talks about his life, hopes, dreams and his family. His father is ambitious and wants to emigrate to America. But then the tragedy strikes.

    Akhil Sharma has succeeded in making it a sensitive yet light read that is both poignant and really funny at times. We can certainly empathise with the Mishras and relate to their conflicts.

    Easy read. Likable characters. Overall, an interesting book.
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    Priyanka G

    May, 2014

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    a good weekend read

    the writing is excellent though i did get bore at different points during the story......anyone will empathize with the characters. i read it in two sittings . i wanted to know what happened to birju but the story came to a sudden end. so anyone having 3-4 spare hours in the weekend can opt for it. thank you.
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    vivek

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    Family life.

    The book was good.I would have liked the ending to not have been so abrupt. Akhil Sharma finished off his adulthood in a very hurried way. Would love to have read more about how his parents coped after he grew up and his brother expired.
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    gagan

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    Sep, 2014

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