Ser'eznye muzhchiny - Manu Dzh.

About the book:
Book is filled with witty characters, caustic comments, but at the same time warm and soulful. It is best to call it a modern fairy tale.
Sharp, slashing, very funny and clever novel about India and Indians.
More precisely, about Indian men, hand and foot bound by traditions, conventions and prejudices.
Ayyan - from the lower caste, such as he does not make it to the top, the way there they are forbidden - caste restrictions, poverty and uneducation. But Ayyan is unique.
He's too smart, agile and adventurous. He has already succeeded the impossible - by his forties he is not only alive and well (which for an Indian man from the lower layers is tantamount to a miracle), but also works not rickshaws, not handymen for everything, but a personal assistant to a brilliant scientist, an astrophysicist with a world-renowned reputation and
But ayyan is not enough, he has a cunning and ambitious plan - to fly into the stratosphere of society.
And the rocket-carrier will serve him his own son - a smart-sensible boy, tormented by his prodigy antics of teachers.
Ayyan wants to put in place of arrogant chef, to revive his fading marriage, and at the same time to become famous and get rich.
And while brahmin astrophysicists are engaged in fierce battles for the theory of alien life, Ayyan is unwittingly building his own disposition for attack
. An incredibly funny, utterly irreverent novel about ambition and bloated ego, about the conflict of Indian bonds and unforgiving progress, about quiet love and its strange consequences.