The Death of Vishnu: A Novel Manil Suri
Publisher: Norton, W. W. & Company, Inc.

Professor Finds the Art in Both Numbers and Letters -- a New York Times interview with Manil Suri, mathematician and novelist. Rightly or wrongly, The Savage Girl was a casualty of the Death of Irony, a fact that is itself ironic given that the book was, in Kurt Andersen's words, an “analysis (and embodiment) of post-ironic yearning.” Shakar is a Brooklyn native, and each of his books is, in its The story of the twin sages Nara and Narayana, who together form the fifth avatar of Vishnu, is deployed to great effect, besides which it is fascinating in its own right. If you like this book try: The Death of Vishnu by Manil Suri. Words of Caution: There is strong language, drug usage, and allusions to sex in the book. Read: The Splendor of Silence, The Twentieth Wife Manil Suri (pictured) www.manilsuri.com What he writes: Novels that confront traditional and modern India. His trilogy, The Death of Vishnu, The Age of Shiva, and now, The City of Devi, is bound together by its use of Hindu gods as metaphor, and the central role played by the city of Mumbai, formerly known as Bombay. Book review: 'The death of Vishnu' by Manil Suri. Set in present-day Mumbai, India, the novel follows the lives of two women: Serabai Dubash, an upper-middle-class widow, and her domestic servant, Bhima. Recommended for adult readers only. I then slowly began to think that there was more to it than a short story. He also is a professor of mathematics at the University of Maryland Baltimore County (UMBC). Best read in three days (because of In the spirit of Khaled Housseini (author of Kite Runner) and Manil Suri (author of The Death of Vishnu), Kaya dives into his own culture and gives us social commentary of a country often overlooked in literature. His latest novel is The Age of Shiva. 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. 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. Alias Grace by Margaret Atwood, Arundhati Roy's The God of Small Things, Manil Suri's The Death of Vishnu, The Poisonwood Bible by Barbara Kingsolver, The Dive from Clausen's Pier, Ann Packer. Described by multiple reviewers as a Shakespearean Tragedy, Kaya's debut novel Voice of Conscience is a little bit Kite Runner and a little bit Bourne Identity, but still something all its own. The City of Devi, the recently released third leg of the triangle, is a love story/sex comedy set in an apocalyptic future; it's a book as rich in Hindu myth and as it is in Bollywood lore. Manil Suri is the author of the novels The Death of Vishnu, The Age of Shiva, and his newest, The City of Devi. Manil Suri, a fine novelist (The Death of Vishnu) who also happens to be a professor of mathematics at the University of Maryland, also read the manuscript. The scary part was that people started saying it was novella, and it ultimately took the form of a novel.