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26-04-2019, 04:34 AM

Language: English | Format: epub | Size: 2.29 MB |

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'I loved this beautiful book. It's tender and compassionate, written withexquisite care and verve, and so so SO funny' MARIAN KEYES
Professor Chandra is an expert at complex problems. There's just one hecan't crack: the secret of happiness
In the moments after the bicycle accident, Professor Chandra doesn't see hislife flash before his eyes, but his life's work.
He's just narrowly missed out on the Nobel Prize (again) and even though heknows he should get straight back to his pie charts, his doctor has otherideas.
All this work. All this success. All this stress. It's killing him. He needsto take a break, start enjoying himself. In short, says his doctor (who isfrom California), Professor Chandra should just follow his bliss.
He doesn't know it yet, but Professor Chandra is about to embark on the tripof a lifetime.

Review
"I loved this beautiful beautiful book. It's tender and compassionate, writtenwith exquisite care and verve, and so so SO funny" (Marian Keyes)
"Chandra is a delightful creation: peevish, intolerant, intellectuallyexacting, unwittingly eccentric, nerdy, needy let lovable. The book, like itspicaresque hero, is a one-off" (Patricia Nicol Sunday Times )
"This brilliant and eloquent novel, which puts into words so many unutterableannoyances, is a sort of Zen satire in which tolerance and understandingmingle with hilarious criticism of contemporary mores. It's a wonderful read"(Wendy Holden Daily Mail )
"Rajeev Balasubramanyam gently pokes fun at the modern fondness forpositivity, but tells a disarmingly positive story... The writing is elegantand witty and the comedy is always underpinned with humanity; a life withoutbliss is no life, and the gradual dawning of Chandra's self-awareness isgenuinely uplifting" (Kate Saunders The Times )
"Balances satire and self-enlightenment... a surprisingly soulful family talethat echoes Jonathan Franzen's Corrections in its witty exploration of threechildren trying to free themselves from the influence of their parents" (BenEast Observer )

About the Author
Rajeev Balasubramanyam was born in Lancashire and studied at Oxford,Cambridge and Lancaster universities. He is the prize-winning author of InBeautiful Disguises. He has lived in London, Manchester, a remote Suffolkbeach, Kathmandu and Hong Kong, where he was a Research Scholar in the Societyof Scholars at Hong Kong University. He was a fellow of the Hemera Foundation,for writers with a meditation practice, and has been writer-in-residence atCrestone Zen Mountain Center and the Zen Center of New York City. Hisjournalism and short fiction have appeared in the Washington Post , TheEconomist , the New Statesman , London Review of Books , Paris Review ,McSweeney 's and many others. He currently lives and works in Berlin.