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Family planning a novel

Rakesh Ahuja, a Government Minister in New Delhi, is beset by problems: thirteen children and another on the way; a wife who mourns the loss of her favorite TV star; and a teenaged son with some really strong opinions about family planning. To make matters worse, looming over this comical farrago are secrets'both personal and political'that threaten to push the Ahuja household into disastrous turmoil. Following father and son as they blunder their way across the troubled landscape of New Delhi, Karan Mahajan brilliantly captures the frenetic pace of India's capital city to create a searing portrait of modern family life.

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  • "Family planning"@it
  • "Romanzo"

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  • "Mr Ahuja, a Government Minister in New Delhi, is beset by problems: thirteen children and another on the way, not to mention the daily struggles over whether to resign for the sixty-third time; his wife, Sangita, adrift on a sea of knitting and nappies, is mourning the loss of her favourite TV soap star; son Rishi drives everyone mad with his serial apologies; and, finally there's Arjun, the oldest and perhaps the wisest of the sprawling, noisy crew. For once, though, Arjun is lost for words: how can he tell his school friend Aarti that he loves her? Serenading her with cover versions of Bryan Adams' greatest hits perhaps isn't the answer. In a household pushed to the brink, Arjun's father also has secrets to spill, and must do so in the troubled landscape of modern-day Delhi that he himself has built. Following father and son as they blunder their way over and under the flyovers of the megalopolis, Karan Mahajan brilliantly juggles the cultural and political worlds of India's capital city to create a moving - and fast-moving - portrait of modern family life."
  • "Rakesh Ahuja, a Government Minister in New Delhi, is beset by problems: thirteen children and another on the way; a wife who mourns the loss of her favorite TV star; and a teenaged son with some really strong opinions about family planning. To make matters worse, looming over this comical farrago are secrets'both personal and political'that threaten to push the Ahuja household into disastrous turmoil. Following father and son as they blunder their way across the troubled landscape of New Delhi, Karan Mahajan brilliantly captures the frenetic pace of India's capital city to create a searing portrait of modern family life."@en
  • "Struggling to survive amid India's complicated civil service, Rakesh Ahuja, Delhi's minister of urban development, is the head of an ever-expanding family of thirteen children, which includes his rebellious oldest son, Arjun."
  • "Struggling to survive amid India's complicated civil service, Rakesh Ahuja, Delhi's minister of urban development, is the head of an ever-expanding family of thirteen children, which includes his rebellious oldest son, Arjun."@en
  • "Le ministre de la Ville a deux passions, sa famille de treize enfants et la ville de New Delhi. Après des années de silence, il décide d'annoncer un secret à Arjun, son fils aîné. Des péripéties vont repousser la révélation de cette vérité jusqu'aux dernières pages. C'est une satire de la famille indienne, de la globalisation et du conflit des générations."
  • "Mr Ahuja, Minister for Urban Development, is beset by problems: his daily struggle over whether to resign for the sixty-third time; thirteen children; his pregnant wife, Sangita, seemingly adrift on a sea of knitting and nappies; his son Rishi and his maddening serial apologies ... and finally there's Arjun, the wisest of his sprawling family. However, even Arjun feels defeated: how does he tell the girl on the school bus that he's crazy about her? And Arjun's father must confront the roots of his strange and disturbing marriage in the troubled landscape of modern-day New Delhi that he himself has built."

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  • "Large type books"
  • "Domestic fiction"@en
  • "Domestic fiction"
  • "Roman indien (de l'Inde) de langue anglaise"
  • "Humorous fiction"
  • "Humorous fiction"@en
  • "Fiction"
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  • "Belletristische Darstellung"
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  • "Das Universum der Familie Ahuja : Roman"
  • "Planning familial"
  • "Family Planning"
  • "Family planning : a novel"
  • "Planificación familiar"
  • "Planificación familiar"@es
  • "Das Universum der Familie Ahuja Roman"
  • "Family planning : complete and unabridged"
  • "Family planning a novel"@en
  • "Family planning"@en
  • "Family planning"
  • "La moglie sbagliata"
  • "La moglie sbagliata"@it

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