Difficult Pleasures

Download or read book Difficult Pleasures written by Anjum Hasan and published by Penguin UK. This book was released on 2012-04-15 with total page 178 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A solitary economist drives from France to Sweden to try and redeem a tragedy; a boy fervently hopes his father will not miss his appearance in a school play; a painter on the way to Europe is about to board the wrong flight; 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.