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4/5 The Telegraph Publication date April 7, 2014 Originally published 7 April 2014 Genre Autobiographical novel Country United States of America | 3.5/5 Goodreads Language English ISBN 978-0-393-06005-8 Publisher W. W. Norton & Company | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Media type Print (hardback and paperback)
Digital (ebook) Pages 224 (US hardback edition) Awards Folio Prize (2015)
International Dublin Literary Award (2016) Award International Dublin Literary Award (2016) Similar An Obedient Father, Green Signals: Ecology, Sourav Ganguly: Cricket - C, Dept of Speculation, The Lives of Others | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Family Life is a 2014 autobiographical novel by Akhil Sharma. Set in 1978, it tells the coming-of-age story of an eight-year old Indian boy named Ajay Mishra living with his recently immigrated family in New York City. The story develops around his older brother Birju, who suffers a life-changing accident, and how the family copes with the incident.
This was Sharma's second published novel. It won the 2015 Folio Prize and the 2016 International Dublin Literary Award.
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