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| Award | Year | Status | Citation |
|---|---|---|---|
| International Dublin Literary Award | 2016 | Winner | |
| Rathbones Folio Prize | 2015 | Winner | “For its spare, devastating account of a family's destruction by a swimming pool accident — fiction of extraordinary compression and emotional power.” |
About This Book
Akhil Sharma's second novel — based on his own family's experience — follows the Sharma family from Delhi to New York, where Ajay's older brother Birju suffers a catastrophic brain injury in a swimming pool and the family's life is consumed by his care. A compressed, devastating masterpiece about immigration, family love, and survival, it won the Rathbones Folio Prize in 2015.
About the Author
Akhil Sharma is an Indian-American novelist born in 1971 in Delhi, India, who immigrated to the United States with his family as a child. He studied at Princeton and Harvard Law School and worked as an investment banker before becoming a full-time writer. His debut novel An Obedient Father (2000) won the PEN/Hemingway Award. Read more →
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