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Peasants at a Party and Other Stories…now available on Amazon, Flipkart and all leading ecommerce sites.  Purchase the book on Amazon.com here

Synopsis:

A pair of idle investment bankers gets caught up in an art hustle. A rising star gets backstabbed by her own mentor. An ambitious CEO pays a steep price for an unfortunate misstep. A London City banker finds himself writing scripts for Bollywood. Peasants at a Party is a collection of such fictional tales set in the UK, US, and India where vicious politics, greed, and lust intersect against a backdrop of the corporate world.
Unmasking the shenanigans at play through her keen observation and imaginative storytelling, the author Sona Maniar brings her own experience of having lived and worked in six countries and takes us on an entertaining ride across the business landscape. With ups and downs and often a surprise twist at the end, the stories reveal the harshness beneath the apparent glamour and compel the reader to reflect, introspect and most importantly ask the question – Could this too happen in the workplace?

Reviews:

Ms Maniar’s stories which range from the short to the very short are about corporate life, its politics and all that. They are very readable and have a story to tell. Some of them don’t have an ending. They merely, and charmingly, stop. A few have a twist in the end and some are more conventional. All pertain to the human foibles that surface in highly competitive environments – Business Standard
Having been integral to the corporate world and culture, Sona has a ringside view of the things and shenanigans that take place in this specific domain. Every story needs an introspective pause… – Free Press Journal
These slices of life from corporate life are easy to digest, told in a crisp and accessible language, leaving little for ambiguity. Lust, possession, avarice, fidelity and guilt get their treatment at Maniar’s fictional massage table – Arrackistan.com