{"product_id":"9780393285352","title":"A Life of Adventure and Delight","description":"\u003cp\u003e“There’s a great duality to these stories: simple but complex, funny enough to laugh out loud at but emotionally devastating, foreign yet familiar. What an exciting and original writer this is, and what a knock-out collection.”—David Sedaris\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eHailed as a storyteller whose fiction is “a glowing work of art” (\u003cem\u003eWall Street Journal\u003c\/em\u003e), Akhil Sharma is possessed of a narrative voice “as hypnotic as those found in the pages of Dostoyevsky” (\u003cem\u003eThe Nation\u003c\/em\u003e). In \u003cem\u003eA Life of Adventure and Delight\u003c\/em\u003e, 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.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eA 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 longstanding contempt for his cousin suddenly shifts inward when he witnesses his cousin caring for a sick woman. Tender and darkly comic, the protagonists in \u003cem\u003eA Life of Adventure and Delight\u003c\/em\u003e 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, honest assessment of human relationships between mothers and sons, sons and lovers, and husband and wives from a dazzlingly original, critically acclaimed writer.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Norton, W. W. \u0026 Company, Inc.","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47078100435184,"sku":"9780393285352","price":9.49,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9780393285352_p0.jpg?v=1769892990","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780393285352","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}