Description
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
Author: Manu Joseph
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Published: 08/02/2010
Pages: 320
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.60lbs
Size: 8.30h x 5.50w x 1.10d
ISBN13: 9780393338591
ISBN10: 0393338592
BISAC Categories:
- Fiction | Literary
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
Author: Manu Joseph
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Published: 08/02/2010
Pages: 320
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.60lbs
Size: 8.30h x 5.50w x 1.10d
ISBN13: 9780393338591
ISBN10: 0393338592
BISAC Categories:
- Fiction | Literary