Serious Men - A Novel (Paperback)

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

General

Imprint:	W W Norton & Co Inc
Country of origin:	United States
Release date:	July 2010
First published:	August 2010
Authors:	Manu Joseph
Dimensions:	211 x 142 x 20mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback
Pages:	318
ISBN-13:	978-0-393-33859-1
Categories:	Books > Language & Literature > Literature: texts > General
LSN:	0-393-33859-2
Barcode:	9780393338591

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