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The Year of the Runaways

The Year of the Runaways

by Sunjeev Sahota
Paperback
Publication Date: 18/06/2015

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Shortlisted for the 2015 Man Booker Prize

'All you can do is surrender, happily, to its power' - Salman Rushdie

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, this 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.

ISBN:
9781447241669
9781447241669
Category:
Contemporary fiction
Format:
Paperback
Publication Date:
18-06-2015
Publisher:
Pan Macmillan
Country of origin:
United Kingdom
Pages:
480
Dimensions (mm):
234x153x34mm
Weight:
0.65kg
Sunjeev Sahota

Sunjeev Sahota is the author of Ours Are the Streets and The Year of the Runaways, which was shortlisted for the 2015 Man Booker Prize, the International Dylan Thomas Prize and the Sunday Times Young Writer of the Year Award, and won the Encore Prize, the European Union Prize for Literature, and the South Bank Sky Arts Award. He was chosen as one of Granta's Best Young British Novelists in 2013. He lives in Sheffield.

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