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Ajay, eight years old, spends his afternoons playing cricket in the streets of Delhi with his brother Birju, four years older. They are about to leave for shiny new life in America.
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Classical in form, earnest, contemporary and grave.
- classical in formformally daring
- earnestironic
- contemporarynostalgic
- gravecomic
- unpretentiousprestige
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About the book
- Author
- Akhil Sharma
- First published
- 2014
- Pages
- 224
- Publisher
- W. W. Norton & Company, Faber & Faber Fiction, W.W. Norton & Company
- Editions
- 4
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9780571224531
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