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A Life of Adventure and Delight
by Akhil Sharma
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July 2017 First Editions Club Pick
New York, NY: W. W. Norton (pub: July 11, 2017)
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“There’s a great duality to these stories: simple but complex, funny enough to laugh out loud at but emotionally devastating, foreign yet familiar. What an exciting and original writer this is, and what a knock-out collection.”—David Sedaris
Hailed as a storyteller whose fiction is “a glowing work of art” (
Wall Street Journal
), Akhil Sharma is possessed of a narrative voice “as hypnotic as those found in the pages of Dostoyevsky” (
The Nation
). In
A Life of Adventure and Delight
, Sharma delivers eight masterful stories that focus on Indian protagonists at home and abroad and that plunge the reader into the unpredictable workings of the human heart.
A young woman in an arranged marriage awakens one day surprised to find herself in love with her husband. A retired divorcé tries to become the perfect partner by reading women’s magazines. A man’s longstanding contempt for his cousin suddenly shifts inward when he witnesses his cousin caring for a sick woman. Tender and darkly comic, the protagonists in
A Life of Adventure and Delight
deceive themselves and engage in odd behaviors as they navigate how to be good, how to make meaningful relationships, and the strengths and pitfalls of self-interest. Elegantly written and emotionally immediate, the stories provide an intimate, honest assessment of human relationships between mothers and sons, sons and lovers, and husband and wives from a dazzlingly original, critically acclaimed writer.
AKHIL SHARMA
is the author of
Family Life
, a
New York Times
Best Book of the Year and the winner of the International DUBLIN Literary Award and the Folio Prize. His writing has appeared in
The New Yorker
,
The Atlantic
,
Best American Short Stories
, and
O. Henry Award Stories
. A native of Delhi, he lives in New York City and teaches English at Rutgers University-Newark.
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