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.'The 13 stories in Difficult Pleasures are a good indicator why Anjum Hasan is widely regarded as a rising star on the literary horizon as fluid in prose as poetry' - The Hindu About th