The Year of the Runaways

Sunjeev Sahota

The Year of the Runaways
Format
Paperback
Publisher
Pan Macmillan
Country
United Kingdom
Published
8 March 2016
Pages
480
ISBN
9781447241652

The Year of the Runaways

Sunjeev Sahota

**Shortlisted for the 2015 Man Booker Prize

‘All you can do is surrender, happily, to its power’ Salman Rushdie**

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. Tarlochan, a former rickshaw driver, will say nothing about his past in Bihar; and Avtar has a secret that binds him to protect the choatic Randeep. Randeep, in turn, has a visa-wife in a flat on the other side of town: a clever, devout woman whose cupboards are full of her husband’s clothes, in case the immigration men surprise her with a call.

Sweeping between India and England, and between childhood and the present day, this generous, unforgettable novel is - as with Rohinton Mistry’s A Fine Balance - a story of dignity in the face of adversity and the ultimate triumph of the human spirit.

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