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A 2017 Editors' Pick by the New York Times, Entertainment Weekly, TIME, Rolling Stone and Esquire
A New York Times Editors' Pick
A People Pick
Entertainment Weekly's Must-List
A TIME Magazine Pick
Rolling Stone's Culture Index Pick
One of Esquire's Best 30 Books of 2017
Anil Kumar Jha has worked hard all his life to provide for his family. But now after thirty years, Anil has sold his company, and off the subsequent windfall has installed his wife Bindu and their wayward son Rupak in Gurgaon, one of Delhi's glossiest neighbourhoods.
But while sudden, fabulous wealth can buy you a lot of things – from designer saris to crystal-encrusted sofas to life-size reproductions of the Sistine Chapel – it can't buy the Jhas happiness. In fact, life is about to get a whole lot more complicated…
Diksha Basu's thoroughly modern comedy of manners is sharply-observed tale of social aspiration, social anxiety and how to survive it in a rapidly changing new India.
Published | 12 Jul 2018 |
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Format | Paperback |
Edition | 1st |
Extent | 304 |
ISBN | 9781408888704 |
Imprint | Bloomsbury Publishing |
Dimensions | 198 x 129 mm |
Publisher | Bloomsbury Publishing |
Ultra charming
Vogue
Uproarious, beady-eyed social comedy with a big heart
Mail on Sunday
A wicked satirist and social critic … The stuff of Amartya Sen's worst nightmares and Tom Wolfe's sweetest dreams
New York Times
Elegantly and humorously exposes the complexities of love and money … expands our understanding of home, beyond the places where we think we belong
Elle
A complete joy from start to finish
Kamila Shamsie
I so loved this novel – laugh-out-loud funny and yet deeply touching. Like a blingy version of A Diary of a Nobody it demonstrates that whatever our nationality or wealth we're all prey to fathomless insecurity
Deborah Moggach, author of The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel
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