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.
The Illicit Happiness Of Other People
The Illicit Happiness Of Other People - 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 write by Manu Joseph. This book was released on 2013-01-08. The Illicit Happiness Of Other People available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Ousep Chacko, journalist and failed novelist, prides himself on being “the last of the real men.” His wife, Mariamma, finds ways to feed her family despite their lack of money, but in her spare time she fantasizes about Ousep’s early death. One day, their seventeen-year-old son, Unni—a boy obsessed with comics—does something terrible and inexplicable. Ousep and Mariamma separately try to solve the mystery of Unni’s action but find no answers. Three years later, Ousep receives a package that sends him back to the search. He starts to hound his son’s friends and a famous neurosurgeon. Meanwhile, younger son Thoma—a twelve-year-old with below-sea-level self-esteem—falls desperately in love with their haughty, beautiful teenage neighbour, who has her own secrets. The Illicit Happiness of Other People—a smart, wry and poignant novel—is part mystery, part philosophy and part unlikely love story.
The Illicit Happiness Of Other People
The Illicit Happiness Of Other People - 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 write by Manu Joseph. This book was released on 2015-07-08. The Illicit Happiness Of Other People available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Seventeen-year-old Unni Chacko has done something terrible. The only clue to his action lies in a comic strip he has drawn, which has fallen into the hands of his father Ousep, an anarchist. Ousep begins investigating the extraordinary life of his son, blissfully unaware that his long-suffering wife is plotting to kill him. Set in Madras in 1990, this is a darkly comic story involving the relentless pursuit of a failed writer who has found purpose, an adolescent cartoonist's dangerous interpretation of truth, the plots of a brilliant housewife, and the pure love of a twelve-year-old boy for a beautiful girl.
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
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 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.
