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The Year of the Runaways
The Year of the Runaways
Sunjeev Sahota (born 1981)
English editions
Written in EnglishThe Year of the Runaways
Picador · United Kingdom · 6 March 2025 · Paperback · 480 pages
The Year of the Runaways
Pan Macmillan · United Kingdom · 2015 · 400 pages
The Year of the Runaways
Picador · United Kingdom · 28 January 2016 · Paperback · 480 pages
The Year of the Runaways
Alfred A. Knopf · United States · March 2016 · Hardcover · 480 pages
The Year of the Runaways
Vintage · United States · 21 February 2017 · Paperback · 512 pages
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Thirteen young men share a house in Sheffield, all of them in flight from India. Tarlochan once drove a rickshaw and keeps silent about Bihar. Avtar, who sold a kidney and took on a ruinous loan to pay for a student visa, is tied by something he hides to the volatile Randeep, who came on a marriage visa to earn money after his father's breakdown. Randeep's wife, Narinder, a devout Sikh born in London, keeps his clothes in her wardrobe across town in case immigration officers call. Moving between their lives in India and one hard year in England, the novel follows their search for work, the debts they owe at home and the uneasy bonds that form between them.
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About the book
- Form
- Novel
- Genres
- Migration (assigned by AI)
- Set in
- United Kingdom, India
- First published
- 2015
- Author's age
- 34 when first published
- ISBN
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9781447241669 (Pan Macmillan, United Kingdom)
9781447241652 (Picador, United Kingdom)
9781101946107 (Alfred A. Knopf, United States)
9781101911884 (Vintage, United States)
9781035061761 (Picador, United Kingdom)
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