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Revised and featuring a new foreword by the author, this uncompromising novel returns, more powerful than ever: "A portrait of a country ravaged by vendetta and graft, its public spaces loud with the complaints of religious bigots and its private spaces cradling unspeakable pain." (Hilary Mantel, New York Review of Books)An Obedient Father introduced one of the most admired voices in contemporary fiction. Set in Delhi in the 1990s, it tells th...

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Faber Stories, a landmark series of individual volumes, presents masters of the short story form at work in a range of genres and styles.

The tensions of an arranged marriage, the baggage of an alcoholic mother and the corruption present in an Indian neighbourhood are explored with Sharma's Chekhov-like focus in this collection, five stories from which appeared in the "New Yorker".

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 marr...

Hailed as a storyteller whose fiction is "a glowing work of art" ("Wall Street Journal"), Sharma delivers eight masterful stories that focus on Indian protagonists at home and abroad and plunge listeners into the unpredictable workings of the human heart.

Named as one of "Granta"'s 'Best of Young American Novelists' and winner of the 2015 Folio Prize, this is an elegant collection of stories which explore the unpredictability of human emotion.

Blackly funny and touching follow up to Akhil Sharma's 2001 debut, "An Obedient Father". Newly emigrated from Delhi, young Ajay must find the strength to navigate this brave new world on his own terms, when a terrible accident makes a mockery of his family's dreams, causing a devastating splintering. Now in paperback.

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 Aj...

By turns blackly funny, touching, raw and devastating, FAMILY LIFE is a vivid and wrenching portrait of sibling relationships and the impact of tragedy on one family from a boy's eye view.

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Ram Karan, a corrupt official in the Delhi school system, lives in one of the city's slums with his widowed daughter and his eight-year-old granddaughter. An Obedient Father takes the reader to an India that is both far away and real - into the mind of a character as tormented, funny, and ambiguous as one of Dostoevsky's anti-heroes.

Known for his "cunning, dismaying and beautifully conceived" fiction (New York Times), Akhil Sharma delivers a story of astonishing intensity and emotional precision. Growing up in Delhi in 1978, eight-year-old Ajay Mishra and his older brother Birju play cricket on the streets, eagerly waiting for the day they can join their father in America. America to the Mishras is, indeed, everything they could have imagined and more-until tragedy strike...

Come sopravvivere, se tutto intorno a te va in pezzi e sei solo un bambino?, si chiede Ajay, voce narrante di questo nuovo libro di Akhil Sharma. E si dà una risposta precisa: imparando a scriverne. Se la fatica dei giorni diventa materia narrativa, se le persone diventano personaggi, se una biografia famigliare diventa un romanzo, forse chi lo scrive riuscirà a sopravvivere e, chissà, a vivere. Inizia così ad assemblare ricordi, a captare umo...

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This innovative reader brings together classic theoretical texts and cutting-edge ethnographic analyses of specific state institutions, practices, and processes and outlines an anthropological framework for rethinking future study of "the state." Focuses on the institutions, spaces, ideas, practices, and representations that constitute the "state."Promotes cultural and transnational approaches to the subject. Helps readers to make anthropologi...

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 marr...