Serious men
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Serious men
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- Serious men
- Statement of responsibility
- Manu Joseph
- Subject
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- trueScientists
- trueSocial classes
- trueAmbition
- Ambition -- Fiction
- trueAstronomers
- Astronomers -- Fiction
- Dalits -- Fiction
- trueDeception
- trueExtramarital affairs
- trueHumorous fiction
- trueIndia -- Social life and customs
- India -- Social life and customs -- Fiction
- trueLife change events
- trueManipulation by women
- Mumbai (India) -- Fiction
- trueMumbai, India
- trueResearch institutes
- Research institutes -- Fiction
- Romance fiction
- Satire
- Language
- eng
- 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. 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"--Publisher description
- Cataloging source
- DLC
- Dewey number
- 823/.92
- Index
- no index present
- LC call number
- PR9499.4.J676
- LC item number
- S47 2010
- Literary form
- fiction
- Target audience
- adult
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