- England, fiction, Fiction, cultural heritage, Fiction, urban, Fiction, family life
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.
Log it
Sign in to log this.
Character
Earnest, grave, contemporary and prestige.
- earnestironic
- gravecomic
- contemporarynostalgic
- unpretentiousprestige
- character-ledplot-driven
Who loves it, who doesn't
No profiled raters yet.
Ask the title
A yes-or-no question, answered from what people wrote here, on TMDB and on Wikipedia. Never made up.
YesNoUnclear
Reviews
No reviews yet.
About the book
- Author
- Sunjeev Sahota
- First published
- 2015
- Pages
- 496
- Publisher
- Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, Thorndike Press, Alfred a Knopf
- Editions
- 9
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9781510016842
Where to read
Libraries first: a card gets you most books for nothing. Each opens that service’s page for this title.
On Open Library, 3 want to.
Similar in taste
Closest on the same fourteen dimensions, from everything scored on Tastebuds Other media included when they land close.
Butter Honey Pig Bread 202084% alikeBoth earnest, grave, contemporary.
White oleander 198984% alikeBoth earnest, grave, contemporary.
Dear America 201883% alikeBoth earnest, grave, contemporary.
Here comes the sun 201681% alikeBoth earnest, contemporary, grave.
Gehen, ging, gegangen 201581% alikeBoth earnest, grave, contemporary.
Ghana must go 201380% alikeBoth grave, earnest, contemporary.
Drown 199680% alikeBoth earnest, grave, contemporary.
A place for us 201880% alikeBoth earnest, grave, contemporary.
Origin 202382% alikeFilm · Both earnest, grave, contemporary.
The Armstrong Lie 201381% alikeFilm · Both grave, earnest, contemporary.