The Death of Vishnu: A Novel by Manil Suri

The Death of Vishnu: A Novel



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ISBN: 9780393342826
Publisher: Norton, W. W. & Company, Inc.


If anything, Chong leans on a laidback humor that was evident already in a novel like Beauty Like Pity; it tracks throughout My Year of the Racehorse to give the memoir an emotionally resonant, but comic scaffolding. There it was the calculating housewife Mrs. Manil Suri's new novel The Age of Shiva, like his first novel The Death of Vishnu, begins with a scene of a woman offering liquid nourishment to a needy male. Now, back in grey skied England, she enjoys books about India instead, revelling in their colourful, magical quality. One of our book groupies has been to India and fallen in love with it. His latest novel is The Age of Shiva. Of those writers whose novels I say I will eventually get to, but then somehow manage to squander away the hours, but no more: I have read his semi-post-apocalyptic speculative realist novel City of Devi (after Age of Shiva and The Death of Vishnu). In 2001 Indian-American maths professor Manil Suri made headlines when his debut novel The Death of Vishnu created a big buzz with wild figures being tossed around as advance the author got for it. Times Book Award and the WH Smith Book Award. The main story follows former police inspector Arjun Kadam, who washed out of the force after the death of his beloved, pregnant wife, Vedika. Manil Suri is the author of the novels The Death of Vishnu, The Age of Shiva, and his newest, The City of Devi. As the story opens, he's in a rain-soaked back alley, An unexpected gunfight led to the leader of their unit, Assistant Commissioner of Police Vishnu T Damle, retiring after suffering wounds that paralyzed him from the waist down, wounds incurred as he sought to protect Kadam. On a concrete landing in an apartment block in Mumbai, Vishnu, who scrapes a living by running errands for the tenants, is dying. Also, “The Death of Vishnu” by Manil Suri is a really readable novel, similar to “Bombay Time”, about the lives of various families who live in the same apartment building. As experienced by a cross-section of the population. A threat of imminent nuclear attack from Pakistan has the citizens of Mumbai in a panic in this manic novel, the third in a trilogy (The Death of Vishnu, 2001; The Age of Shiva, 2009). Suri's debut novel, The Death of Vishnu (2001), received the Barnes & Noble Discover Great New Writers Award and became an international bestseller. Manil Suri (born July 1959) is an Indian-American mathematician and writer, most notable for his first novel, The Death of Vishnu, which was nominated for the PEN/Faulkner Award in 2002. He also is a professor of mathematics at the University of Maryland Baltimore County (UMBC). His first novel, The Death of Vishnu, was longlisted for the Booker Prize, nominated for the PEN Faulkner Award, the L.A. Above and below, all around him, life in the flats continues.





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