Difficult Pleasures - PB

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 the Author Anjum Hasan is the author of two novels Lunatic in my Head (shortlisted for the Crossword Book Award) and Neti Neti (shortlisted for The Hindu Best Fiction Award) and a book of poems Street on the Hill. She lives in Bangalore.