The Year of the Runaways

b>Shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize 2015/b>br>b>/b>br>b>'A brilliant and beautiful novel' Kamila Shamsie, Guardian/b>b>'The Grapes of Wrath for the 21st century' Washington Post/b>br>b>/b>br>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 chaotic 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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Sahota is a writer who knows how to turn a phrase, how to light up a scene, how to make you stay up late at night to learn what happens next. The Year of the Runaways is a brilliant and beautiful novel. Kamila Shamsie Guardian

Product details

• Authors: Sunjeev Sahot, Sunjeev Sahota, Sahota Sunjeev
• Publisher: Picador Uk
• Languages: English
• Age Recommendation: from age 18
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 30.06.2016
• EAN: 9781447241652
• ISBN: 978-1-4472-4165-2
• No. of pages: 480
• Dimensions: 130 mm x 197 mm x 29 mm
• Series: Picador
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; FICTION / Political, Yorkshire, India, Narrative theme: Interior life, Narrative theme: Sense of place, Sheffield and Rotherham, FICTION / Urban & Street Lit, Modern and contemporary fiction: general and literary, Relating to migrant groups / diaspora communities or peoples