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Professor Chandra Follows His Bliss

By: Rajeev Balasubramanyam
Narrated by: Ramon Tikaram
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Random House presents the audiobook edition of Professor Chandra Follows His Bliss by Rajeev Balasubramanyam, read by Ramon Tikaram.

There’s no problem Professor Chandra can’t solve. Except for one: the secret to 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.

©2019 Rajeev Balasubramanyam (P)2019 Random House Audiobooks Absurdist Family Life Fiction Genre Fiction Literary Fiction

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Critic reviews

I loved this beautiful beautiful book. It's tender and compassionate, written with exquisite care and verve, and so so SO funny (Marian Keyes)
Chandra is a delightful creation: peevish, intolerant, intellectually exacting, unwittingly eccentric, nerdy, needy let lovable. The book, like its picaresque hero, is a one-off (Patricia Nicol)
This brilliant and eloquent novel, which puts into words so many unutterable annoyances, is a sort of Zen satire in which tolerance and understanding mingle with hilarious criticism of contemporary mores. It’s a wonderful read (Wendy Holden)
Rajeev Balasubramanyam gently pokes fun at the modern fondness for positivity, but tells a disarmingly positive story... The writing is elegant and witty and the comedy is always underpinned with humanity; a life without bliss is no life, and the gradual dawning of Chandra’s self-awareness is genuinely uplifting (Kate Saunders)
Balances satire and self-enlightenment... a surprisingly soulful family tale that echoes Jonathan Franzen’s Corrections in its witty exploration of three children trying to free themselves from the influence of their parents (Ben East)
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A bright sparkling novel. Lots to think about, it’s a well written book which anyone with a university association will recognise and enjoy, deliciously so.
(If occasionally clunky and cliched)
Is brilliantly read. An absolute delight. Adds so much to the story.
Thanks to writer and to reader.

Delightfully subversive. Wickedly entertaining. Brilliantly read.

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I loved this book because the voyage of discovery felt genuine and real in a modern world and I liked all the people in it made me smile and afterward sit down with my eyes shut and count the breath

A book to make you feel good

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