Miss Laila, Armed and Dangerous - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Miss Laila, Armed and Dangerous write by Manu Joseph. This book was released on 2017-09-25. Miss Laila, Armed and Dangerous available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. A building collapses in Mumbai. In the debris is a man who is mumbling something in delirium. It appears that he is passing on the real-time movements of a young Muslim couple. Elsewhere, a young intelligence agent is assigned to shadow two terror suspects, one of whom is a teenager and the sweetheart of her street, Laila.Taking up a slice of recent history, the novel glares at the entire system - not just politicians, the bureaucracy, the police and lackeys, but also the good folks. Pervasive in its satire, wicked in its humour and broad-based in its canvas, Miss Laila, Armed and Dangerous is one of the most stylish and honest works of fiction about India ever written.
The Illicit Happiness of Other People: A Novel
The Illicit Happiness of Other People: A Novel - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Illicit Happiness of Other People: A Novel write by Manu Joseph. This book was released on 2013-01-07. The Illicit Happiness of Other People: A Novel available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. A quirky and darkly comic take on domestic life in southern India. The PEN Open Book Award called Manu Joseph "that rare bird who can wildly entertain his readers as forcefully as he moves them." In The Illicit Happiness of Other People, Joseph brilliantly brings his talents to the story of an Indian Christian family living far afield in south India. It has been three years since seventeen-year-old Unni Chacko mysteriously fell from a balcony to his death. His family—journalist father Ousep, who smokes two cigarettes at once “because three is too much”; mother Mariamma, who fantasizes gleefully about murdering her husband; and twelve-year-old love-struck brother Thoma with zero self-esteem, have coped by not coping. When the post office delivers a comic drawn by Unni that had been lost in the mail, Ousep, shocked out of his stupor, ventures on a quest to understand his son and rewrite his family’s story. Combining family drama with philosophy, social satire with satisfying storytelling, The Illicit Happiness of Other People reminds us that the greatest mystery of all—the one most worth our time and energy—is understanding the people we love.
MISS LAILA, ARMED AND DANGEROUS.
MISS LAILA, ARMED AND DANGEROUS. - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook MISS LAILA, ARMED AND DANGEROUS. write by MANU. JOSEPH. This book was released on 2019. MISS LAILA, ARMED AND DANGEROUS. available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
Serious Men: A Novel
Serious Men: A Novel - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Serious Men: A Novel write by Manu Joseph. This book was released on 2010-08-02. Serious Men: A Novel available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 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. One of 2010’s “First Novels to Savor.” —Sunday Telegraph
Death Watch
Death Watch - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Death Watch write by Ari Berk. This book was released on 2011-11-15. Death Watch available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. When seventeen-year-old Silas Umber's father disappears, Silas is sure it is connected to the powerful artifact he discovers, combined with his father's hidden hometown history, which compels Silas to pursue the path leading to his destiny and ultimately, to the discovery of his father, dead or alive.
