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....

Ram Karan, a corrupt official in the Delhi school system, lives in one of the city's slums with his widowed daughter and his eight-year-old granddaughter. Bumbling, ironical, sad, Ram is also a man tortured...

Akhil Sharma'snew collection is a remarkable achievement. These tender, elegant stories - each of which was first published in the New Yorker - all explore the unpredictability of human emotion. In the...

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,...

Faber Stories, a landmark series of individual volumes, presents masters of the short story form at work in a range of genres and styles. As he stood up, he suddenly felt aroused by Mrs Shaw's large breasts,...

Traduit de l'anglais (États-Unis) par Paule Guivarch. Ajay n'a pas dix ans lorsque sa famille quitte l'Inde pour s'installer aux États-Unis. Lui et son grand frère Birju découvrent émerveillés ce pays...

Revised and featuring a new foreword by the author, this uncompromising novel returns, more powerful than ever: "A portrait of a country ravaged by vendetta and graft, its public spaces loud with the...