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An edition of Family Life (2014)

Family Life

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Ajay, eight years old, spends his afternoons playing cricket in the streets of Delhi with his brother Birju, four years older. They are about to leave for shiny new life in America. Ajay anticipates, breathlessly, a world of jet-packs and chewing-gum. This promised land of impossible riches and dazzling new technology is also a land that views Ajay with suspicion and hostility; one where he must rely on his big brother to tackle classroom bullies. Birju, confident, popular, is the repository of the family's hopes, and he spends every waking minute studying for the exams that will mean entry to the Bronx High School of Science, and reflected glory for them all. When a terrible accident makes a mockery of that dream, the family splinters. The boys' mother restlessly seeks the help of pundits from the temple, while their father retreats into silent despair -- and the bottle. Now Ajay must find the strength of character to navigate this brave new American world, and the sorrows at home, on his own terms.

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Family life: a novel
2014, Faber & Faber Fiction
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PS3569.H34287 F36 2014, PS3569.H34287 F36 2015, PS3569.H34287F36

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OL26774233M
Internet Archive
familylifenovel0000shar
ISBN 10
0393060055
ISBN 13
9780393060058
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2013041222
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857405169

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