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The Illicit Happiness Of Other People


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By Manu Joseph

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About the book

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.

Manu Joseph’s debut novel Serious Men (2010) won The Hindu Literary Prize and the American PEN Open Book Award. The Illicit Happiness of Other People is his second novel. Manu is columnist for The International New York Times and lives in Delhi.

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