Serious men /
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| Author / Creator: | Joseph, Manu. |
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| Edition: | 1st American ed. |
| Imprint: | New York : W.W. Norton & Co., 2010. |
| Description: | 310 p. ; 21 cm. |
| Language: | English |
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| Format: | Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/8123012 |
| Summary: | 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.<br> <br> <br> <br> 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.<br> <br> <br> <br> One of 2010's "First Novels to Savor." --Sunday Telegraph |
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| Physical Description: | 310 p. ; 21 cm. |
| ISBN: | 9780393338591 0393338592 |