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Difficult Pleasures

Difficult Pleasures

Anjum Hasan
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Hasan Anjum
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A solitary economist drives across Europe to try and redeem a tragedy; a boy fervently hopes his father will not miss his appearance in a school play; a girl sits alone in a deck chair in Goa, frightened by what she has done; a village boy leaves school for the bright lights of bangalore; a man tries to stop time. Wry, tender, borderline surreal, Difficult Pleasures is a collection of stories about the need to escape and the longing to belong. Accomplished, ambitious and full of surprises, this is a masterful collection and it confirms anjum Hasan’s reputation as one of India’s most gifted young writers.

Imprint: India Penguin

Published: Apr/2012

ISBN: 9780143420170

Length : 256 Pages

MRP : ₹299.00

Difficult Pleasures

Anjum Hasan
,
Hasan Anjum

A solitary economist drives across Europe to try and redeem a tragedy; a boy fervently hopes his father will not miss his appearance in a school play; a girl sits alone in a deck chair in Goa, frightened by what she has done; a village boy leaves school for the bright lights of bangalore; a man tries to stop time. Wry, tender, borderline surreal, Difficult Pleasures is a collection of stories about the need to escape and the longing to belong. Accomplished, ambitious and full of surprises, this is a masterful collection and it confirms anjum Hasan’s reputation as one of India’s most gifted young writers.

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Paperback / Hardback
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Anjum Hasan

Anjum Hasan is the author of three novels-The Cosmopolitans (shortlisted for the Crossword Book Award), Neti Neti (shortlisted for the Hindu Best Fiction Award) and Lunatic in My Head (shortlisted for the Crossword Book Award)-as well as a book of short stories, Difficult Pleasures (shortlisted for the Crossword Book Award and the Hindu Best Fiction Award), and a book of poems. She lives in Bangalore.

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