Manu Joseph

Serious Men

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Produktbeschreibung

Ayyan Mani will not be constrained by Indian traditions. Despite working at the Institute of Theory and Research in Mumbai as the lowly personal assistant to a brilliant but insufferable astronomer, he dreams of more for himself and his family. Ever wily and ambitious, Ayyan weaves two plots: the first to cheer up his weary, soap-opera-addicted wife by creating outrageous fictions around their ten-year-old son; the other to sabotage the married director by using his boss's seeming romance with the institute's first female-and very attractive-researcher. Meanwhile, as the institute's Brahmins wage a vicious war over theories about alien life, Ayyan sees his deceptions intertwining and setting in motion a series of extraordinary events he cannot stop. Unfailingly funny and irreverent, Serious Men is at once a hilarious portrayal of runaway egos and ambitions and a moving portrait of love and its strange workings. One of 2010's "First Novels to Savor." -Sunday Telegraph

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Blue Guides Limited of London
• Seitenzahl: 318
• Erscheinungstermin: 2. August 2010
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 210mm x 142mm x 23mm
• Gewicht: 267g
• ISBN-13: 9780393338591
• ISBN-10: 0393338592
• Artikelnr.: 29338362

Autorenporträt

Manu Joseph, who lives in New Delhi, is a columnist for the International Herald Tribune. His first novel, Serious Men, won the PEN/Open Book Award and was shortlisted for the Man Asian Literary Prize.