The Death of Vishnu

ISBN-13: 9780747593812 / Angielski / Miękka / 2008 / 352 str.

Manil Suri

Opis

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, and the widower, alone and quietly grieving at the top of the building. Vishnu looks back on his affair with the seductive Padmini and comedy becomes tragedy.

Recenzje

'Beautifully captures with great tenderness and depth the eternal war between duty and desire. This is a love letter to Bombay and its people' Sunday Express

O autorze

Manil Suri was born in Bombay in 1959 and is a distinguished university professor of mathematics at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County. He has written three novels, The Death of Vishnu, The Age of Shiva, and The City of Devi, as well as the non-fiction book, The Big Bang of Numbers: How to Build the Universe Using Only Maths. His fiction has been translated into twenty-seven languages, longlisted for the Booker Prize, shortlisted for the PEN/Faulkner Award, LA Times Book Award, PEN/Hemingway Award and the W H Smith Literary Award, and has won the McKitterick Prize and the Barnes & Noble Discover Award. He was named by Time magazine as a 'Person to Watch' in 2000. He lives in Maryland, USA.https://www.manilsuri.com/