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Serious men

Ayyan Mani works in the Institute of Theory and Research as a personal assistant to a brilliant, insufferable astronomer, Arvind Acharya, who is obsessed with his theory about microscopic aliens falling to earth. Mani is one of the thousands of men stranded in the slums of Mumbai, but ever the opportunist, Mani is also an astute observer and sly eavesdropper, and he makes sure he knows everything that is going on in the Institute, listening in on private conversations, and opening, reading and resealing confidential couriered letters. Partly to entertain himself, partly to cheer up his once-animated but now work-worn wife, partly to bolster his ten-year-old son's confidence, Mani weaves an outrageous fiction around the boy'a fiction that captures the interest of his superiors at the Institute and threatens to set into motion an unstoppable and disastrous chain of events. And Mani, struggling to keep his own dreams alive, sees opportunity in everything.

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  • "Ayyan Mani works in the Institute of Theory and Research as a lowly personal assistant to a brilliant, insufferable astronomer, Arvind Acharya, who is obsessed with his theory about microscopic aliens falling to earth.Stranded in an ordinary life, Ayyan knows he may not be able to escape his realities."
  • "Ayyan Mani works in the Institute of Theory and Research as a personal assistant to a brilliant, insufferable astronomer, Arvind Acharya, who is obsessed with his theory about microscopic aliens falling to earth. Mani is one of the thousands of men stranded in the slums of Mumbai, but ever the opportunist, Mani is also an astute observer and sly eavesdropper, and he makes sure he knows everything that is going on in the Institute, listening in on private conversations, and opening, reading and resealing confidential couriered letters. Partly to entertain himself, partly to cheer up his once-animated but now work-worn wife, partly to bolster his ten-year-old son's confidence, Mani weaves an outrageous fiction around the boy'a fiction that captures the interest of his superiors at the Institute and threatens to set into motion an unstoppable and disastrous chain of events. And Mani, struggling to keep his own dreams alive, sees opportunity in everything."@en
  • "Novel on social themes."
  • "Ayyan Mani is a lowly assistant to a brilliant astronomer called Arvind Acharya. He dreams of a better life - far away from the crowded slums of Mumbai, where his wife can escape their jaundice-yellow walls and his ten-year-old son has a leg up to all the opportunities he deserves. So, he weaves an outrageous fiction around his son to make him famous. (It will be their little secret.) Arvind also dreams - of love and success - so he can't believe his luck when his wife goes away and he is free to have an illicit affair with a beautiful woman. But will love distract Arvind from his last shot at success as he tries to convince his fellow scientists that microscopic aliens are falling to earth?"
  • ""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."
  • ""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 of English original."

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  • "Humorous fiction"
  • "Belletristische Darstellung"
  • "Love stories"
  • "Large type books"@en
  • "Indic fiction (English)"
  • "Large type books"
  • "Bestseller 2011 (Englisch)"
  • "India fiction"@en
  • "Electronic books"@en
  • "Romans (teksten)"
  • "Fiction"@en
  • "Fiction"
  • "Satire"
  • "Humorous stories"

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  • "Serious men"@en
  • "Serious men"
  • "Un hombre serio"@es
  • "Slimme mannen"
  • "Un Hombre serio"
  • "Ernste Männer : Roman"
  • "Les savants : roman"
  • "Alvorlige mænd : roman"@da
  • "Ozbiljni ljudi"
  • "Sīriyas men"
  • "Genie ist relativ : Roman"
  • "Ernste Männer Roman"

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