Serious Men (Hardback)
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Short Description for Serious Men A sparkling, comic novel about modern India
Full description- Publisher: John Murray Publishers Ltd
- Published: 10 June 2010
- Format: Hardback 320 pages
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- Categories: Contemporary Fiction
- ISBN 13: 9781848543072 ISBN 10: 1848543077
- Sales rank: 674,755
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Full description for Serious Men
Winner of the Man Asian Literary Prize and shortlisted for the Bollinger Everyman Wodehouse Prize for Comic Fiction Ayyan Mani works in the Institute of Theory and Research as a lowly personal assistant to a brilliant, insufferable astronomer, Arvind Acharya, who is obsessed with his theory about microscopic aliens falling to earth. Stranded in an ordinary life, Ayyan knows he may not be able to escape his realities. To entertain himself, and to cheer up his weary wife, he weaves an outrageous fiction around his ten-year-old son, setting in motion a chain of extraordinary events he is unable to stop. Meanwhile, a war is brewing between rival scientists at the Institute and a beautiful astrobiologist complicates matters further. An astute observer, Ayyan follows these events closely, inventing new ways to further his own cause. Serious Men is a brilliantly funny tale of science, love and hope. Manu Joseph's assured storytelling makes this a debut to treasure.
