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Fiction. Surrounded by Sleep. By Akhil Sharma. December 2, 2001. The New Yorker, December 10, 2001 P. 90. One August afternoon, when Ajay was ten years old, his elder brother, Aman, dove...
By Akhil Sharma, first published in The New Yorker. A young boy deals with difficult life changes one fateful year after his high-achieving brother nearly drowns in a swimming pool and falls into a coma.
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Akhil Sharma (born July 22, 1971) is an Indian-American author and professor of creative writing. His first published novel An Obedient Father won the 2001 Hemingway Foundation/PEN Award . His second, Family Life , won the 2015 Folio Prize and 2016 International Dublin Literary Award .
Aug 14, 2017 · “His mother was on her side and she had a blanket pulled up to her neck. She looked like an ordinary woman,” Sharma writes in “Surrounded by Sleep.” “It surprised him that you couldn’t tell, looking at her, that she had a son who was brain-dead.”
This Week in Fiction: Akhil Sharma. By Deborah Treisman. January 10, 2014. Your piece in this week’s issue, “ A Mistake ,” is adapted from parts of your forthcoming novel, “Family Life.”...
Sep 1, 2017 · Of the eight tales in this collection, “Surrounded by Sleep” stands out for its irony, its understated sadness and long shadows.
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Jul 15, 2017 · In “Surrounded by Sleep”, the life of 10-year-old Ajay and his family abruptly changes when his elder brother has a swimming-pool accident and is rendered vegetative.
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