Manu Joseph Boeken

Het onzichtbare geluk van andere mensen is een hoogst ontroerende, zwartkomische vertelling op de dunne scheidslijn tussen waan en werkelijkheid. Wanneer Unni zich op zeventienjarige leeftijd van het leven berooft door van een balkon af te springen, gaat zijn vader Ousep op zoek naar een verklaring. Waarom kiest een aantrekkelijke en intelligente jongen met een groot talent voor het tekenen van stripverhalen voor een dergelijke stap? Ousep, die 'twee sigaretten tegelijk rookt omdat drie hem domweg te veel is', zoekt klasgenoten van Unni op en vraagt ze naar zijn zoon, wat ze van hem vonden, en hoe ze zijn daad verklaren. De zoektocht levert niets op, tot er drie jaar na de dood van Unni een pakketje bij zijn ouders en broertje Thoma arriveert, met de graphic novel die Unni op de dag van zijn zelfmoord verstuurde.

Seventeen-year-old Unni has done something terrible. The only clue to his actions lies in a comic strip he has drawn, which has fallen into the hands of his father Ousep - a nocturnal anarchist with a wife who is fantasizing about his early death. Ousep begins investigating the extraordinary life of his son, but as he circles closer and closer to the truth, he unravels a secret that shakes his family to the core. Set in Madras in the 1990s, where every adolescent male is preparing for the toughest exam in the world, this is a powerful and darkly comic story involving an alcoholic's probe into the minds of the sober, an adolescent cartoonist's dangerous interpretation of absolute truth, an inner circle of talented schizophrenics and the pure love of a 12-year-old boy for a beautiful girl.

Deceptively witty, profound and fiercely provocative, Manu Joseph's crackingnew novel focuses on ordinary people caught up in political forces andreligious division whilst also giving us a gripping chase - can an imminentterror attack be stopped? - with an ingenious twist.

Winner of the Man Asian Literary Prize and shortlisted for the Bollinger Everyman Wodehouse Prize for Comic Fiction. Ayyan Mani is a man born to greater things, which wouldn't surprise his neighbours in the vast tenement building in which he lives, where to be sober and employed practically makes a man a legend. He works as an assistant at the Institute of Theory and Research, where he studies with amusement and envy the public battles and private love affairs of the squabbling scientists. But when an opportunity for betterment presents itself in the form of his 'gifted' ten-year-old son Adi, father and son embark on an outrageous ruse that will have far-reaching consequences. Manu Joseph's archly comic debut is a tale of a man's attempt to elevate himself and his family above the banality of ordinary existence.

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