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I351.45/18 版次： |
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中图分类法:
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I351.45 版次： |
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著者:
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Sharma, Akhil, |
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题名:
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Family life : [ a novel /] / , |
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版次:
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Norton paperback [edition] |
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出版发行:
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出版地： New York : 出版社： W.W. Norton & Company, 出版日期： 2015. |
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载体形态:
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218 p., 8 unnumbered p. ; 21 cm. |
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附注:
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Includes Reading Group Guide ([8] pages at end) |
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内容提要:
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We meet the Mishra family in Delhi in 1978, where eight-year-old Ajay and his older brother Birju play cricket in the streets, waiting for the day when their plane tickets will arrive and they and their mother can fly across the world and join their father in America. America to the Mishras is, indeed, everything they could have imagined and more: when automatic glass doors open before them, they feel that surely they must have been mistaken for somebody important. Pressing an elevator button and the elevator closing its doors and rising, they have a feeling of power at the fact that the elevator is obeying them. Life is extraordinary until tragedy strikes, leaving one brother severely brain-damaged and the other lost and virtually orphaned in a strange land. Ajay, the family's younger son, prays to a God he envisions as Superman, longing to find his place amid the ruins of his family's new life. |
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主题词:
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Fathers and sons |
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主题词:
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Families |
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索书号:
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I351.45/18 |