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The Year of the Runaways tells of the bold dreams and daily struggles of an unlikely family thrown together by circumstance. Thirteen young men live in a house in Sheffield, each in flight from India and in desperate search of a new life. Tarlochan, a former rickshaw driver, will say nothing about his past in Bihar; and Avtar has a secret that binds him to protect the choatic Randeep. Randeep, in turn, has a visa-wife in a flat on the other side of town: a clever, devout woman whose cupboards are full of her husband's clothes, in case the immigration men surprise her with a call. Sweeping between India and England, and between childhood and the present day, Sunjeev Sahota's generous, unforgettable novel is — as with Rohinton Mistry's A Fine Balance — a story of dignity in the face of adversity and the ultimate triumph of the human spirit.
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The Year of the Runaways, Sunjeev Sahota
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- Erscheinungsdatum
- 2015
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- Titel
- The Year of the Runaways
- Sprache
- Englisch
- Autor*innen
- Sunjeev Sahota
- Verlag
- Bantam Books
- Erscheinungsdatum
- 2015
- Einband
- Paperback
- Seitenzahl
- 496
- ISBN10
- 0451492994
- ISBN13
- 9780451492999
- Reihe
- Schlagwörter
- Belletristik, Romantik, Liebe, Familie, Gegenwartsliteratur, Kurzgeschichten, Freundschaft, Beziehungen, Kriege, 20. Jahrhundert, Britische Literatur, Geschichten, Tod, England, Literarische Fiktion, Asien, Ehe, Indien, Rasse, Rassismus, Schwestern, Armut, Alterung, Türkisch, Einwanderung, Traurigkeit, Väter und Söhne, Obdachlosigkeit, Booker Preis
- Beschreibung
- The Year of the Runaways tells of the bold dreams and daily struggles of an unlikely family thrown together by circumstance. Thirteen young men live in a house in Sheffield, each in flight from India and in desperate search of a new life. Tarlochan, a former rickshaw driver, will say nothing about his past in Bihar; and Avtar has a secret that binds him to protect the choatic Randeep. Randeep, in turn, has a visa-wife in a flat on the other side of town: a clever, devout woman whose cupboards are full of her husband's clothes, in case the immigration men surprise her with a call. Sweeping between India and England, and between childhood and the present day, Sunjeev Sahota's generous, unforgettable novel is — as with Rohinton Mistry's A Fine Balance — a story of dignity in the face of adversity and the ultimate triumph of the human spirit.