{"product_id":"a-life-of-adventure-and-delight","title":"A Life of Adventure and Delight","description":"Hailed 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. A 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.","brand":"W. W. Norton \u0026 Company","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48836052156621,"sku":"9780393355895","price":15.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0557\/1529\/9533\/files\/imageloader_8c96ce45-8d96-4d61-b0f3-7a1bef83d386.jpg?v=1790991887","url":"https:\/\/booksatmidnight.com\/products\/a-life-of-adventure-and-delight","provider":"Books At Midnight","version":"1.0","type":"link"}