Manu Joseph's SERIOUS MEN sold in the US, Germany & Serbia
July 15, 2009
In addition to US (W.W. Norton), German (Klett-Cotta) and Serbian (Laguna), foreign rights in SERIOUS MEN have also been bought by HarperCollins in both Canada and India (in separate deals), and by Podium in Holland. John Murray who bought UK rights at auction back in April, will publish SERIOUS MEN as a lead title in the late spring of 2010.
SERIOUS MEN is a poignant and comic tale of science, dreams and hope. Ayyan Mani works in the Institute of Theory and Research as a lowly personal assistant to a brilliant, insufferable astronomer, Arvind Acharya, who is obsessed with his theory about microscopic aliens falling to earth. Partly to entertain himself, partly to cheer up his work-worn wife, partly to bolster his ten-year-old son's confidence, Ayyan weaves an outrageous fiction around the boy, Adi, setting in motion a chain of events he will not be able to stop.
Manu Joseph is deputy editor and Mumbai bureau chief of OPEN Magazine, a national news magazine recently launched in India. He was earlier National Features Editor of the largest newspaper in the country and one of the largest in the world, The Times of India. He has been writer-at-large for Wired's website, wired.com, and written for the Independent. In 2007 he became a Chevening Scholar, an annual British Government award for twelve journalists who will shape opinions in the future. The award came with a three-month stay in London.
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