Binding: Paperback
Description: A startlingly beautiful debut Akil Kumarasamy's 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.
Title: Half Gods
Author(s): Kumarasamy Akil
Publisher: Picador
Barcode: 9781250214959
Pages: 224 Pages
Language: English
Publication Date: 7/9/2019
Category: Modern & Contemporary Fiction