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A Family of Seven and One T.V.: A Comedy

A Family of Seven and One T.V.: A Comedy

Zereh, Anosha

Paperback

Series: Series 1, Book 1

HumorGeneral Drama

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ISBN13: 9798951310118
Publisher: Iqra Publishing & Media LLC
Pages: 54
Weight: 0.16
Height: 0.13 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.50
Language: English
A Family of Seven and One T.V.

They had already lost their country. Now they were waiting to discover whether they would lose themselves.

New Delhi, 1985. A family of seven Afghan refugees lives in the uncertain space between departure and arrival, between the home they can never return to and the future they cannot yet reach. The Soviet war has driven them out. Western embassies have not yet let them in. So they wait, in a small rented apartment in a city that is not theirs, with a single television set that has become the eighth member of the family.

Told through the eyes of an eleven-year-old daughter - third child, second girl, too tall for her chair, too foreign for her school, A Family of Seven and One T.V. moves in nine comic chapters through the months of waiting. A father who believes the news is more important than dinner. A mother who knows better and cooks anyway. A grandmother - Bibi - small, sharp, unkillable, who trusts people even less than she trusts machines, and who once, in front of the grandchildren, admitted to a small, harmless crush on Amitabh Bachchan. An oldest brother already planning his escape route. A silent older sister promoted, unofficially, to second mother. A baby brother who has mastered the ancient art of being adorable while doing nothing helpful.

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