Author:  Sharma, Akhil 
Fiction & related items
Published on 2 April 2015 by FABER & FABER in the United Kingdom.

Paperback | 224 pages
200 x 130 x 19 | 186g
WINNER OF THE 2016 INTERNATIONAL DUBLIN LITERARY AWARDWINNER OF THE FOLIO PRIZE 2015For eight-year-old Ajay and his older brother Birju, life in Dehli in  the late 1970s follows a comfortable, predictable routine: bathing on  the roof, queuing for milk, playing cricket in the street. Yet,  everything changes when their father finds a job in America - a land of  carpets and elevators, swimsuits and hot water on tap. Life is exciting  for the two brothers as they adjust to prosperity, girls and 24-hour TV,  until one hot, sultry day when everything falls apart. Darkly comic, Family Life is a story of a boy torn between duty and survival amid the ruins of everything he once knew.