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    A Life of Adventure and Delight
    A Life of Adventure and Delight
    A Life of Adventure and Delight
    Audiobook5 hours

    A Life of Adventure and Delight

    Written by Akhil Sharma

    Narrated by Deepti Gupta and Neil Shah

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    About this audiobook

    A young woman in an arranged marriage awakens one day surprised to find herself in love with her husband. A retired divorce tries to become the perfect partner by reading women's magazines. A man's long-standing contempt for his cousin suddenly shifts inward when he witnesses his cousin caring for a sick woman. The protagonists in A Life of Adventure and Delight deceive themselves and engage in odd behaviors as they navigate how to be good, how to make meaningful relationships, and the strengths and pitfalls of self-interest. Elegantly written and emotionally immediate, the stories provide an intimate and profound assessment of human relationships between mothers and sons, sons and lovers, and husband and wives.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherHighbridge Company
    Release dateJul 11, 2017
    ISBN9781681687131
    A Life of Adventure and Delight
    Author

    Akhil Sharma

    Akhil Sharma (Delhi, 1971) emigró a Estados Unidos a los ocho años y creció en Edison, Nueva Jersey. Estudió derecho en la Universidad de Princeton –donde fue alumno de notables escritores, como Russell Banks, Toni Morrison, Joyce Carol Oates, Paul Auster o Tony Kushner– y posteriormente en Harvard. Es autor de la novela An Obedient Father, galardonada en 2001 con el PEN/Hemingway y el Whiting Writers’ Award, y ha publicado relatos en The New Yorker, The Atlantic Monthly, The Quarterly, Fiction, y en las antologías The Best American Short Stories y O. Henry Award Winners. La revista Granta seleccionó a Akhil Sharma como una de las nuevas voces más interesantes de la ficción americana actual. Vida de familia, su segundo libro, fue elegido una de las cinco mejores novelas del año por The New York Times.

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      Short story collections are always hit or miss for me. I either binge the whole book in a couple days or it takes weeks because I have no problem stopping after each story. A Life of Delight and Adventure is one that I kept reading. It’s all about Indian families with a lot of focus on relationships of arranged marriages. A few take place in the US but most are in India. Men don’t come across in a good light in most of the stories. I enjoy the level of description Sharma uses while still having some kind of plot...always a tough balance in the short story