Family Life

Akhil Sharma

earliest edition we have, 2014 this edition, 2014 263 pages

Thorndike Press large print basic

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 broth...

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Family Life paperback · 2015 · 9780670087457
Family life edition · 2014 · Faber & Faber Fiction · 210 pages · 9780571314263
Family Life edition · 2014 · W. W. Norton & Company · 224 pages · 9780393060058
Family Life edition · 2014 · 263 pages · 9781410470874

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