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The Year of the Runaways by Sunjeev Sahota is a work of fiction available to read on EtoBox.
What is The Year of the Runaways about?
Short-listed for the Man Booker PrizeFrom one of Granta's Best of Young British Novelists and Man Booker Prize nominee Sunjeev Sahota--a sweeping, urgent contemporary epic, set against a vast geographical and historical canvas, astonishing for its richness and texture and scope, and for the utter immersiveness of its reading experience.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.In a dilapidated shared house in Sheffield, Tarlochan, a former rickshaw driver, will say nothing about his life in Bihar. Avtar and Randeep are middle-class boys whose families are slowly sinking into financial ruin, bound together by Avtar's secret. Randeep, in turn, has a visa wife across town, whose cupboards are full of her husband's...
Who reads The Year of the Runaways?
It is typically read by readers looking for immersive, entertainment-first reading.
Common subject areas: fiction, literature, genre fiction.
- Author
- Sunjeev Sahota
- Publisher
- Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
- Published
- 2016
- Language
- EN
- Category
- work of fiction
- Subjects
- Fiction
- Rating
- 3.85 / 5 (3,940 ratings)
- Updated
- 2026-03-14