Family Planning

Karan Mahajan

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English

Vintage
15 February 2010

Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)

This hugely entertaining modern Indian morality tale is fast-paced and bittersweet in the tradition of Slumdog Millionaire.

Mr Ahuja, Delhi's Minister of Urban Development, has too much on his hands- thirteen children and another on the way. Lost among his sprawling, noisy brood he reaches out to Arjun, his eldest, and seemingly wisest, son. But Arjun has his own problems- how to tell the girl on the school bus that he's crazy about her?

This uproarious debut follows father and son as they blunder their way over and under the flyovers of the megalopolis in a moving - and fast-moving - comic portrait of modern family life.

By: Karan Mahajan
Imprint: Vintage
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 198mm, Width: 129mm, Spine: 17mm
Weight: 192g
ISBN: 9780099523291
ISBN 10: 0099523299
Pages: 272
Publication Date: 15 February 2010
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Karan Mahajan was born in 1984 and grew up in New Delhi. A graduate of Stanford University, he now lives in Houston, Texas.

Reviews for Family Planning

Readers of this comedy of manners are in for a treat...Mahajan, with supreme self-assurance, fashions a subtle, cutting take on modern India * Guardian * 'Mature and impressive ... a poignant comedy' * Observer * Full of loveable eccentrics and sly social commentary -- Kate Saunders * The Times * The funniest book of the year * Suketu Mehta * Sharp, funny and stylishly assured. Hugely enjoyable * Daily Mail *