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Sunjeev Sahota

Autor(a) de The Year of the Runaways

5 Works 1,021 Membros 49 Reviews

About the Author

Sunjeev Sahota was born in Derbyshire, England in 1981. His novels include Ours Are the Streets and The Year of the Runaways, which was shortlisted for the 2015 Man Booker Prize. (Bowker Author Biography)

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Obras de Sunjeev Sahota

The Year of the Runaways (2015) 675 cópias
China Room (2021) 259 cópias
Ours are the Streets (2011) — Autor — 82 cópias
Das Porzellanzimmer: Roman (2023) 3 cópias
The Spoiled Heart: A Novel (2024) 2 cópias

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Data de nascimento
1981
Sexo
male
Nacionalidade
UK
País (para mapa)
UK
Local de nascimento
Derbyshire, England, UK
Locais de residência
Derbyshire, England, UK
Educação
Imperial College, London
Premiações
Granta's Best of Young British Novelists (2013)

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This book has its heart in the right place, and there is a great novel in there somewhere. Unfortunately, all the blueprints are too clearly visible - plot devices a, b, and c are put in just so, and "here the reader is to feel emotion x, and here emotion z". There was a sense of incompleteness, as if I was reading a rough draft that would go back to the author for further shaping and moulding. I did like the way Sunjeev Sahota writes. There were beautiful moments in this book - there just wasn't enough of them.… (mais)
 
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Alexandra_book_life | outras 19 resenhas | Dec 15, 2023 |
A tense read! A dark look into the psyche of a second generation Muslim immigrant to England as he struggles with his identity and is drawn into radicalisation. I did not find the main character too likeable - it is clear that his own weaknesses, his jealousy, insecurity and paranoia, are what lead to his downfall. But it is an interesting look at the "other side" , and the big question throughout the book is...does he do it?
 
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weemanda | outras 2 resenhas | Nov 2, 2023 |
The story of the plight of Indian (mostly illegal) immigrants to the UK. Very well written. Great story telling of sad and horrible circumstances that drive people to search for work far from home, and the suffering they endure doing the work no one else wants to do in a 'civilized' land. Well worth the read.
 
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JennyPocknall | outras 25 resenhas | Oct 19, 2023 |
'Not all Prisons have bars. And not all love is a Prison.'

TW: Child Abuse, Purdah, Domestic Violence, Drug Abuse, Marital Rape, Rape, Oppression.

China room is a book that came off as a pleasant surprise to me. Though confusing in the beginning, once all the characters were introduced and the scene was set, I started enjoying the narration while also being positively intrigued as to what would happen next.

It runs in two timelines. The story of Meher, a victim of child marriage, and the current life of her great-grandson, a victim of drug abuse.

It took me a while to put two and two together and understand what was happening. Meher, along with two other women is married to three brothers and she tries her best to find out which of them is hers.

While her great-grandson arrives at his uncle's to get out of drug addiction and makes a decision to go live in their old family home. Here, he is bombarded with bits and pieces of gossip about Meher and how she was locked in a room for straying from her marriage.

While Meher is stuck between the brother she's married to and the brother she was supposed to be married to, the family politics, the 'ego' between the brothers, and the pressure to give them a child while her great-grandson is re-painting and bringing their ancestral home back to life while falling in love with the doctor.

The story had high potential and it does deliver to some extent with the exploration of all the traumas and how they affect lives.

Ultimately, there is an ending to both stories. I'm not exactly in content with them but I am glad we were not left hanging with a vague conclusion.

Spoiler alert and TW: Mai, Meher's dominant mother-in-law summons the women to a 'dark room' when their husbands request for them. Apparently, being the youngest of the three, Meher was betrothed to Suraj, the youngest of the brothers but after having a look at the three of them before the wedding, Jeet, the oldest brother marries her instead.

What happens next is very confusing to me because it seemed as though Meher was warming up to her husband and Suraj, who finds out about how she was supposed to be his wife, out of spite for his older brothers' power over him, persuades her to believe that he is the husband and 'makes love'. This obviously is sexual assault.

Now, I cannot seem to understand why even after learning about the deception, she continues to indulge in her love for him when she had initially warmed up to her husband. Then again, she was a 15-year-old.

Anyway, I can see why this was longlisted for the booker prize.
… (mais)
 
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AnrMarri | outras 19 resenhas | Aug 1, 2023 |

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Obras
5
Membros
1,021
Popularidade
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Avaliação
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Resenhas
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ISBNs
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