Résumé du livre

Informationen zum Autor Akhil Sharma was born in Delhi in India and emigrated to the USA in 1979. His stories have been published in The New Yorker and in Atlantic Monthly , and have been included in The Best American Short Stories and O. Henry Prize Collections. His first novel, An Obedient Father , won the 2001 Hemingway Foundation/PEN Award. He was named one of Granta 's 'Best of Young American Novelists' in 2007. His second novel, Family Life , won the 2015 Folio Prize and was shortlisted for the International Dublin Literary Award 2016. Sharma is currently a Fellow at The New York Public Library's Dorothy and Lewis B. Cullman Center for Scholars and Writers. Klappentext 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". Zusammenfassung In these elegant, unsparing and intimate stories, the Folio Prize-winning author, Akhil Sharma, exposes the paradoxes, ironies and harmonies that characterise modern life. Marrying the minimalism of Chekhov and Carver with a flair for dark comedy, A Life of Adventure and Delight is a collection full of wisdom, wonder and reflection.