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Shunned, slighted and starving in Sheffield — the Indian immigrants who have become Britain’s untouchables

Sunjeev Sahota’s novel, The Year of the Runaways, highlighting the horrific plight of Indian immigrants to Britain, is the best novel of the year, says Cressida Connolly

27 June 2015

9:00 AM

27 June 2015

9:00 AM

The Year of the Runaways Sunjeev Sahota

Picador, pp.480, £14.99, ISBN: 9781447241645

Novels of such scope and invention are all too rare; unusual, too, are those of real heart, whose characters you grow to love and truly care for. The Year of the Runaways has it all. The action spans continents, taking in a vast sweep of politics, religion and immigration; it also examines with tenderness and delicacy the ties that bind us, whether to family, friends or fellow travellers.

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