Serious Men - Joseph, Manu

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 Bosss Seeming Romance With The Institutes First Female--and Very Attractive--researcher. Meanwhile, As The Institutes 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.