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Professor Chandra Follows His Bliss

Professor Chandra Follows His Bliss

by RajeevBalasubramanyam (Author)

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    Hardcover 2019

    $4.20
Synopsis

'I loved this beautiful beautiful book. It's tender and compassionate, it's written with exquisite care and verve and it's so so SO funny' MARIAN KEYES There's no problem Professor Chandra can't solve. Except for one: the secret of happiness In the moments after the accident, Professor Chandra doesn't see his life flash before his eyes, but his life's work. He's just narrowly missed the Nobel Prize (again) and even though he knows he should get straight back to his pie charts, his doctor has other ideas. All this work. All this success. All this stress. It's killing him. He needs to take a break, start enjoying himself. In short, says his doctor (who is from California), Professor Chandra should just follow his bliss. Professor Chandra doesn't know it yet, but he's about to embark on the trip of a lifetime.

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Format: Hardcover
 Pages: 288
 Publisher: Chatto & Windus
Published: 10 Jan 2019
ISBN 10: 1784742538
ISBN 13: 9781784742539
Book Overview: An irresistibly funny, cynical and perceptive new anti-hero to sit alongside Eleanor Oliphant, The Rosie Project's Don Tillman and A Man Called Ove

Media Reviews
I loved this beautiful beautiful book. It's tender and compassionate, it's written with exquisite care and verve and it's so so SO funny -- Marian Keyes
Professor Chandra is as acerbic and unbending a curmudgeon as one could wish to find scowling from the pages of a novel. Brilliant, pompous, and baffled by the world outside his Cambridge study, Chandra is forced on a reluctant quest to America to find himself and his family. Searingly funny, uplifting and wonderful -- Helen Simonson, author of MAJOR PETTIGREW'S LAST STAND
There's a long tradition of trying to describe the spiritual search and the ineffable mystery without sounding like a pretentious snob or a sappy Pollyanna. Professor Chandra Follows His Bliss manages to pull it off. The book tackles perennially difficult and deep questions with humor and humanity, beautiful writing, and a page-turning storyline. I gave myself over to Professor Chandra's journey as he opens himself to self-examination, family healing, and a more courageous experience of being alive -- Elizabeth Lesser, author of New York Times bestseller BROKEN OPEN and Cofounder, Omega Institute
Author Bio
Rajeev Balasubramanyam was born in Lancashire in 1974 and went on to study Politics, Philosophy and Economics at Oxford and Development Studies at Cambridge. He also has a a PhD in English and Creative Writing from Lancaster University. He is the prize-winning author of In Beautiful Disguises. He has lived in London, Manchester, a remote Suffolk beach, Kathmandu and Hong Kong, where he was a Research Scholar in the Society of Scholars at Hong Kong University. He was a fellow of the Hemera Foundation, for writers with a meditation practice, and has been writer in residence at Crestone Zen Mountain Center and the Zen Center of New York City. His journalism and short fiction have appeared in the Washington Post, the Economist, New Statesman, London Review of Books, Paris Review, McSweeney's and many others. He currently lives and works in Berlin.