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Akhil Sharma with David Sedaris

April 29, 2014 @ 7:00 pm

Akhil Sharma was born in Delhi in 1971 and moved to the US at the age of eight. His first novel An Obedient Father (2001) won him a PEN/Hemingway prize, a Whiting Award, and praise from the likes of Jonathan Franzen and Joyce Carol Oates. Now, more than a decade later, Akhil will be at the shop to read from and talk about his second novel Family Life (Faber).

Lorin Stein wrote of it in the Paris Review: ‘With acid, deceptively artless prose and a faultless ear for dialogue, Sharma strips his characters bare from page one and dares us to love them in their nakedness. I cannot think of a more honest or unsparing novelist in our generation.’

Akhil Sharma will be in conversation with the American essayist and humorist David Sedaris.

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London Review Bookshop
14 Bury Place London, WC1A 2JL United Kingdom
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