A Life of Adventure and Delight

Name: A Life of Adventure and Delight
Brand: HighBridge Audio
Availability: InStock
Author: Akhil Sharma
ISBN: 9781681687131

Author: Akhil Sharma

Narrator: Neil Shah, Deepti Gupta

Unabridged: 5 hr 17 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Highbridge Audio

Published: 07/11/2017

Categories: Fiction, Short Stories

Synopsis

A young woman in an arranged marriage awakens one day surprised to find herself in love with her husband. A retired divorcé 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.

About Akhil Sharma

Akhil Sharma is the author of Family Life, a New York Times Best Book of the Year and the winner of the International DUBLIN Literary Award and the Folio Prize. His writing has appeared in the New Yorker, the Atlantic, Best American Short Stories, and O. Henry Award Stories. A native of Delhi, he lives in New York City and teaches English at Rutgers University-Newark.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Natalie

In A Life of Adventure and Delight, Sharma delivers eight masterful stories that focus on Indian protagonists at home and abroad and that plunge the reader into the unpredictable workings of the human heart. I started this short story collection a bit skeptical, since it took me nearly the whole day......more

Goodreads review by Nidhi

Originally posted on my blog. The Improbability of Love: Akhil Sharma's A Life of Adventure and Delight Akhil Sharma's A Life of Adventure and Delight is a collection of eight short-stories about Indians living in India and abroad. Woven together by the common themes of love and its improbability, gri......more

Goodreads review by Alan

The simple prose and seemingly straightforward stories - an ostracised boy grows up, an immigrant in the US (from India) has an affair with his neighbour, an arranged marriage goes sour - are deceptive because all of the pieces here lead you down unexpected paths and trigger increasingly complex rea......more

Goodreads review by Dan

There’s a scene in this story that could have been the entire story: in the new Indian restaurant where the owner is telling his patrons to pay what they think is fair but is worried about the Indian customers paying nothing. The tension between Nirmala and Gautama about if he’d pay or not and if he......more