Migration, labour and belonging are examined through intimate lives in Sunjeev Sahota’s fiction. The Year of the Runaways follows several Indian migrants living in a crowded house in Sheffield and a British Sikh woman whose marriage becomes entangled with their attempts to stay in the country. China Room links a young bride in rural Punjab in 1929 with a later British-Asian man returning to the same family property. Ours Are the Streets takes the form of a British Muslim man’s account of radicalisation and alienation. Sahota’s prose is controlled, intimate and socially precise. For discovery, the work connects most naturally with British-Asian literature, migration fiction, class-conscious literary fiction and novels about belonging and displacement. Read more Less
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