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Half gods / Akil Kumarasamy.

Kumarasamy, Akil, 1988- (author.). Kumarasamy, Akil, 1988- Last prayer. (Added Author). Kumarasamy, Akil, 1988- New world. (Added Author). Kumarasamy, Akil, 1988- Story of happiness. (Added Author). Kumarasamy, Akil, 1988- Office of missing persons. (Added Author). Kumarasamy, Akil, 1988- When we were children. (Added Author). Kumarasamy, Akil, 1988- Shade. (Added Author). Kumarasamy, Akil, 1988- At the birthplace of sound. (Added Author). Kumarasamy, Akil, 1988- Brown smurf. (Added Author). Kumarasamy, Akil, 1988- Butcher. (Added Author). Kumarasamy, Akil, 1988- Lifetimes in flight. (Added Author).

Summary:

"A startlingly beautiful debut, Half Gods brings together the exiled, the disappeared, the seekers. Following the fractured origins and destines of two brothers named after demigods from the ancient epic the Mahabharata, we meet a family struggling with the reverberations of the past in their lives. These ten interlinked stories redraw the map of our world in surprising ways: following an act of violence, a baby girl is renamed after a Hindu goddess but raised as a Muslim; a lonely butcher from Angola finds solace in a family of refugees in New Jersey; a gentle entomologist, in Sri Lanka, discovers unexpected reserves of courage while searching for his missing son. By turns heartbreaking and fiercely inventive, Half Gods reveals with sharp clarity the ways that parents, children, and friends act as unknowing mirrors to each other, revealing in their all-too human weaknesses, hopes, and sorrows a connection to the divine."--Amazon.com

Record details

ISBN: 9780374167677
ISBN: 0374167672
Physical Description: 205 pages ; 22 cm
Edition: First edition.
Publisher: New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2018.

Content descriptions

Formatted Contents Note:

Last prayer -- New world -- A story of happiness -- The office of missing persons -- When we were children -- Shade -- At the birthplace of sound -- Brown smurf -- The butcher -- Lifetime in flight.