Friday, June 25, 20107:00pm - 8:00pm
British Council 17,Kasturba Gandhi Marg, New Delhi
HarperCollins India and British council pleased to invite you at lauch of Serious Men. Urvashi Butalia, Publisher and writer & Raghu Karnad, Editor, TimeOut Delhi will be in conversation with the author.
Product Description
A poignant, bitingly funny Indian satire and love story set in a scientific institute and in Mumbai’s humid tenements. 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.
About the Author
Manu Joseph is the deputy editor of the new Indian magazine Open. The former features editor of The Times of India, he was voted “India’s Most Stylish Writer” and short-listed for Society Magazine’s Young Achiever Award. His novel Serious Men will be published in eight countries.
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