Akhil Sharma was born in Delhi in India and emigrated to the USA in 1979. His stories have been published in
The New Yorker and in
Atlantic Monthly, and have been included in
The Best American Short Stories and O. Henry Prize Collections. His first novel,
An Obedient Father, won the 2001 Hemingway Foundation/PEN Award. He was named one of
Granta's 'Best of Young American Novelists' in 2007. His second novel,
Family Life, won the 2015 Folio Prize and was shortlisted for the International Dublin Literary Award 2016. Sharma is currently a Fellow at The New York Public Library's Dorothy and Lewis B. Cullman Center for Scholars and Writers.
Ajay Mishra tiene ocho años cuando, a finales de la década de los setenta, él, su hermano mayor y sus padres dejan Delhi para instalarse en Queens, Nueva York, porque a su padre le han ofrecido un trabajo. El aterrizaje de esta familia india de clase media en el paraíso del consumo...
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