The Illicit Happiness Of Other People : Noval - Couverture rigide

Joseph Manu

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9789350293645: The Illicit Happiness Of Other People : Noval

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ISBN 10 : 9350293641 ISBN 13 : 9789350293645

Editeur : HarperCollins India, 2012

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Revue de presse :

'Quite an achievement' (The Economist)

'There's plenty to enjoy . . . the key revelations are powerful, as a final twist transforms the novel from an offbeat romp to a melancholy take on the age-old story of adolescent desire and its frustrations' (Metro)

'Both wittily funny and darkly serious' (Daily Mail)

'Joseph's prose is exquisitely phrased without an excess of sentimentality...the confident, immersing voice of ILLICIT HAPPINESS promises readers this is not the last we've heard of Manu Jospeh' (Daily Telegraph)

'A refreshing read' (Time Out)

Praise for Serious Men:

Manu Joseph's first novel elegantly describes collisions with an unyielding status quo, ably counterpointing the frustrations of the powerless with the unfulfilling realities of power. With this astute comedy of manners he makes a convincing bid for his own recognition as a novelist of serious talent, the latest addition to a roster of Indian writers who are creating fine literary art from their country's fearsome contradictions

(Peter Carty, Independent)

Manu Joseph's satirical tale of an ostensibly new India still in thrall to its caste-ridden and sexist traditions is so much more than a mere comic caper . . . Sophisticated entertainment (Catherine Taylor, Guardian)

The finest comic novelists know that a small world can illuminate a culture and an age...with this sad-funny debut Joseph does just that (Boyd Tonkin, Books to light up lazy days, Independent)

He has written a debut novel that skewers a society where new ambitions and older class divisions co-exist. From the contrasts of contemporary India, he extracts pointed, often bitter comedy (Sunday Times)

The writing is exuberant (TLS)

Pr�sentation de l'�diteur :

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.

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