The Death of Vishnu

Vishnu, the odd-job man in a Bombay apartment block, lies dying on the staircase landing. Around him the lives of the apartment dwellers unfold – the warring housewives on the first floor, the lovesick teenagers on the second, and the widower, alone and quietly grieving at the top of the building. In a fevered state Vishnu looks back on his love affair with the seductive Padmini and comedy becomes tragedy as his life draws to a close.

About Manil Suri

Manil Suri was born in Bombay in 1959 and is a Professor of Mathematics at the University of Maryland. His first novel, The Death of Vishnu, was longlisted for the Booker Prize, nominated for the PEN Faulkner Award, the L.A. Times Book Award and the WH Smith Book Award. It won the Barnes and Noble 2001 Discover Great New Writers Award for Fiction.

Manil Suri was an inaugural winner of the PEN/Robert Bingham Fellowship for Writers. He is also the author of The Age of Shiva (Bloomsbury, 2008).

Price: AUD$23.95. Publisher: BLOOMSBURY. 352PP. March 2008.

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