Family Planning
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  • Published: 15 February 2010
  • ISBN: 9780099523291
  • Imprint: Vintage
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 272
  • RRP: $28.99

Family Planning

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1 Sep 2010
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3 Mar 2011
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15 Feb 2010
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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.
  • Published: 15 February 2010
  • ISBN: 9780099523291
  • Imprint: Vintage
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 272
  • RRP: $28.99
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About the author

Karan Mahajan

Karan Mahajan grew up in New Delhi, India and lives in Austin, Texas. His first novel, Family Planning, was a finalist for the Dylan Thomas Prize and was published in nine countries. The Association of Small Bombs was a finalist for the National Book Award and was selected as one of the New York Times Book Review’s Ten Best Books of 2016. His writing has appeared in many publications including the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, New Yorker online and The Believer.

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Praise for Family Planning

'Mature and impressive ... a poignant comedy'

Observer

The funniest book of the year

Suketu Mehta

Sharp, funny and stylishly assured. Hugely enjoyable

Daily Mail

Full of loveable eccentrics and sly social commentary

Kate Saunders, The Times

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

One of the best comic novels I've read in years

Jay McInerney