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Sunjeev Sahota

Born

in Derby, The United Kingdom

January 01, 1981

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Sunjeev Sahota is a British novelist. Sahota was born in 1981 in Derby, and his family moved to Chesterfield when he was seven years old. His paternal grandparents had emigrated to Britain from the Punjab in 1966. After finishing school, Sahota studied mathematics at Imperial College London. As of January 2011, he was working in marketing for the insurance company Aviva.

Sahota had not read a novel until he was 18 years old, when he read Salman Rushdie's Midnight's Children while visiting relatives in India before starting university. After Midnight's Children, Sahota went on to read The God of Small Things, A Suitable Boy and The Remains of the Day. In an interview in January 2011, he stated:
It was like I was making up for lost time – not t ...more

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	The Year of the Runaways 3.87 avg rating — 10,290 ratings — published 2015 — 44 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	China Room 3.77 avg rating — 10,417 ratings — published 2021 — 23 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Spoiled Heart 3.79 avg rating — 1,076 ratings — published 2024 — 13 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Ours Are the Streets 3.44 avg rating — 939 ratings — published 2011 — 9 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Os Melhores Jovens Escritores Britânicos (Granta em português #11) by John Freeman (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Granta: The Magazine of New Writing, Joanna Kavenna 3.67 avg rating — 221 ratings — published 2013 — 8 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Freeman's: Scrittori dal futuro by John Freeman (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Damiano Abeni (Translator), Umberto Manuini (Translator) 3.96 avg rating — 156 ratings — 10 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Svenska Granta 2: Arv by Johanna Haegerström (Editor), Negar Josephi (Contributor), Nicole Krauss (Contributor) 3.92 avg rating — 13 ratings — published 2013	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Dieses verdorbene Herz: Roman \| Das Must-Read des Jahres und der fesselnde Roman zur Stunde. by Sunjeev Sahota, Ulrike Wasel (translator), Klaus Timmermann (translator) 4.33 avg rating — 3 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Hardeep: Five Units for GCSE Punjabi (SOAS GCSE Community Language Handbooks) 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Mona: Let's Learn and Read Punjabi and English 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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“Happiness is a pretty precarious state, Randeep. I'm content. That's more than enough. That's more than most.”
― Sunjeev Sahota, The Year of the Runaways

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“I don't see what's so good about helping others, though. If they only become reliant on you. Then you're just part of the problem.”
― Sunjeev Sahota, The Year of the Runaways

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“It really is a pathetic thing. To mourn a past you never had. Don't you think?”
― Sunjeev Sahota, The Year of the Runaways

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