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Manu Joseph: The Illicit Happiness of Other People in conversation with Patrick French

Asia House

Wednesday, 22 August 2012 at 18:45 (BST)

Manu Joseph: The Illicit Happiness of Other People in...

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 The Illicit Happiness of Other People is a sparkling, comic novel set in modern India from the acclaimed author of Serious Men.

 
Seventeen-year-old Unni has done something terrible. As his father, a nocturnal anarchist whose wife fantasises about his early death, begins investigating, he unravels a secret that shakes his family to the core.  Set in Madras in the 1980s, this powerful and darkly comic story probes into a dangerous interpretation of absolute truth, a circle of talented schizophrenics and the love of a boy for a beautiful girl.
 
Manu Joseph is a columnist with International Herald Tribune, the global edition of The New York Times. SERIOUS MEN, his first novel, won the PEN/Open Book award and The Hindu Best Fiction award. It was shortlisted for The Man Asian Literary Prize and the Bollinger Everyman Wodehouse Prize, and was one of Huffington Post's Best Books of 2010.   He will be speaking with Patrick French, author of India - A Portrait,Liberty or Death: India's Journey to Independence and Division and The World is What it Is, the  authorised biography of  V.S. Naipaul.

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63 New Cavendish Street
, W1G 7LP

Wednesday, 22 August 2012 at 18:45 (BST)


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Asia house, the leading pan-Asian organisation in the UK, exists to build dynamic links with Asia, important now more than ever. By providing unique insights into culture, policy, business and education, Asia House promotes informed understanding and the mutual exchange of ideas, building stronger relationships between the diverse communities of Europe and Asia.

Asia House is a non-profit, non-political organisation.

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