A Life of Adventure and Delight
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| Verlag | Faber & Faber |
| Auflage | 2018 |
| Seiten | 208 |
| Format | 13,1 x 20,0 x 1,3 cm |
| Gewicht | 167 g |
| Artikeltyp | Englisches Buch |
| ISBN-10 | 0571326323 |
| EAN | 9780571326327 |
| Bestell-Nr | 57132632EA |
'He is truly the Chekhov of our time.' - Yiyun Li
In these elegant, unsparing and intimate stories, the Folio Prize-winning author, Akhil Sharma, exposes the paradoxes, ironies and harmonies that characterise modern life. Marrying the minimalism of Chekhov and Carver with a flair for dark comedy, A Life of Adventure and Delight is a collection full of wisdom, wonder and reflection.
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These beautiful, funny, intelligent short stories are told with such apparent simplicity ... The simplicity is Sharma's effort to get past all the temptations of falsity, of false style and ready-made ideas. His writing shines its clean light, never mercilessly or voyeuristically, on these characters winding round and round inside the muddled opacity of their lives and their thoughts. They, as well as the writer, struggle for the truth ... Yet their vision is comic too, in the broadest, Chekhovian sense: robust and warm and ironic, not overwrought. The genius lies in the detail, in the gritty comical solidity of real things. Tessa Hadley The Guardian
