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REVIEWS: The Year of the
Runaways
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The NY Times
GoodReads
Book Companion
Short-listed for the 2015 Man Booker Prize . A sweeping,
urgent contemporary epic, set against a vast geographical and
historical canvas. Three young men, and one unforgettable woman,
come together in a journey from India to England, where they
hope to begin something new—to support their families; to build
their futures; to show their worth; to escape the past. They
have almost no idea what awaits them. The Year of the Runaways
unfolds over the course of one shattering year in which the
destinies of these four characters become irreversibly entwined,
a year in which they are forced to rely on one another in ways
they never could have foreseen, and in which their hopes of
breaking free of the past are decimated by the punishing
realities of immigrant life. A novel of extraordinary ambition
and authority, about what it means and what it costs to make a
new life—about the capaciousness of the human spirit, and the
resurrection of tenderness and humanity in the face of
unspeakable suffering.
Characters: 91. Amazon rating: 4 stars. Genre: Fiction.
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