Manu Joseph’s debut novel’ serious men’ which has won the Hindu Best Fiction Award,2010, is popular read in Kerala as well.
The story itself is amusing, as it revolves around the dreams and ambitions of a few serious men engaged in research, but embroiled in human emotions of ambition, jealousy and, of course love. But just as Hamlet came to be known as a book of quotations, serious men could be known as a collection of the most hilarious descriptions of people and situations.
The novel is contemporary, it has characters that come to life and grasp the imagination, it has lession for researchers and their personal assistants, but most of all, the serious men and women make the reader laugh in a way he never did. It makes you think. Laugh and think again, only to laugh even more.
The book’s brilliant one-liners and its excellent observations akin to the views of the common man endear it to the ordinary reader.
Prof.John Kurakar
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