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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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- Rok vydání
- 2015
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- Titul
- The Year of the Runaways
- Jazyk
- anglicky
- Autoři
- Sunjeev Sahota
- Vydavatel
- Bantam Books
- Rok vydání
- 2015
- Vazba
- měkká
- Počet stran
- 496
- ISBN10
- 0451492994
- ISBN13
- 9780451492999
- Série
- Štítky
- Beletrie, Romantika, Láska, Rodina, Současná literatura, Povídky, Přátelství, Vztahy, Války, 20. století, Britská literatura, Příběhy, Úmrtí, Anglie, Společenské romány, Asie, Manželství, Indie, Rasa, rasismus, Sestry, Chudoba, Stárnutí, Turečtina, Imigrace, Smutek, Otcové a synové, Bezdomovectví, Bookerova cena
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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.