In these elegant, unsparing and intimate stories, the Folio Prize-winning author, Akhil Sharma, exposes the paradoxes, ironies and harmonies that characterise modern life. Marrying the minimalism of Chekhov and Carver with a flair for dark comedy, A Life of Adventure and Delight is a collection full of wisdom, wonder and reflection.

The tensions of an arranged marriage, the baggage of an alcoholic mother and the corruption present in an Indian neighbourhood are explored with Sharma's Chekhov-like focus in this collection, five stories from which appeared in the "New Yorker".