A Life of Adventure and Delight
Written by Akhil Sharma
Narrated by Deepti Gupta and Neil Shah
3/5
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About this audiobook
Akhil Sharma
Akhil Sharma (Delhi, 1971) emigró a Estados Unidos a los ocho años y creció en Edison, Nueva Jersey. Estudió derecho en la Universidad de Princeton –donde fue alumno de notables escritores, como Russell Banks, Toni Morrison, Joyce Carol Oates, Paul Auster o Tony Kushner– y posteriormente en Harvard. Es autor de la novela An Obedient Father, galardonada en 2001 con el PEN/Hemingway y el Whiting Writers’ Award, y ha publicado relatos en The New Yorker, The Atlantic Monthly, The Quarterly, Fiction, y en las antologías The Best American Short Stories y O. Henry Award Winners. La revista Granta seleccionó a Akhil Sharma como una de las nuevas voces más interesantes de la ficción americana actual. Vida de familia, su segundo libro, fue elegido una de las cinco mejores novelas del año por The New York Times.
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- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Short story collections are always hit or miss for me. I either binge the whole book in a couple days or it takes weeks because I have no problem stopping after each story. A Life of Delight and Adventure is one that I kept reading. It’s all about Indian families with a lot of focus on relationships of arranged marriages. A few take place in the US but most are in India. Men don’t come across in a good light in most of the stories. I enjoy the level of description Sharma uses while still having some kind of plot...always a tough balance in the short story