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 and his older brother Birju play cricket in the streets, waiting for the day when their plane tickets will arrive and they and their mother can fly across the world and join their father in America. America to the Mishras is, indeed, everything they could have imagined and more: when automatic glass doors open before them, they feel that surely they must have been mistaken for somebody important. Pressing an elevator button and the elevator closing its doors and rising, they have a feeling of power at the fact that the elevator is obeying them. Life is extraordinary until tragedy strikes, leaving one brother severely brain-damaged and the other lost and virtually orphaned in a strange land. Ajay, the family’s younger son, prays to a God he envisions as Superman, longing to find his place amid the ruins of his family’s new life.
Heart-wrenching and darkly funny, Family Life is a universal story of a boy torn between duty and his own survival
發表於2024-12-22
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Family Life uses a first-person narrative, a literary strategy that is employed in many novels by Asian American authors like Charles Yu, Bich Minh Nyugen, and Maxine Hong Kingston. It is special in the category of Asian American fiction in that the main na...
評分Family Life uses a first-person narrative, a literary strategy that is employed in many novels by Asian American authors like Charles Yu, Bich Minh Nyugen, and Maxine Hong Kingston. It is special in the category of Asian American fiction in that the main na...
評分Family Life uses a first-person narrative, a literary strategy that is employed in many novels by Asian American authors like Charles Yu, Bich Minh Nyugen, and Maxine Hong Kingston. It is special in the category of Asian American fiction in that the main na...
評分Family Life uses a first-person narrative, a literary strategy that is employed in many novels by Asian American authors like Charles Yu, Bich Minh Nyugen, and Maxine Hong Kingston. It is special in the category of Asian American fiction in that the main na...
評分Family Life uses a first-person narrative, a literary strategy that is employed in many novels by Asian American authors like Charles Yu, Bich Minh Nyugen, and Maxine Hong Kingston. It is special in the category of Asian American fiction in that the main na...
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評分cliche
評分★★½ It is made by stereotype, boring.
評分“This surprises me because you always expect people who matter a great deal to you to end up leading glamorous lives.”
評分長子由於泳池事故腦癱在床的悲傷令父母無法珍惜甚至忽視瞭另一個孩子的成長。看到最後幾頁和媽媽一起走夜路拿著手電筒迴憶起好多年前哥哥拿著手電筒:follow me !眼淚不知就掉下瞭。
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