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

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). Manil Suri is the acclaimed author of three novels, The Death of Vishnu, The Age of Shiva and The City of Devi, which was just released this month. 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. I read Death of Vishnu several years ago and although I was a bit lost with some of the mythology in that book, I was still enthralled by the story. It lacks the profundity of “A Fine Balance”, but isn't pretentious either, like many other so called successful novels (The Inheritance of Loss, Death of Vishnu). Reflections: The Death of Vishnu. Suri's debut novel, The Death of Vishnu (2001), received the Barnes & Noble Discover Great New Writers Award and became an international bestseller. Submitted by Andrea Lutz, Director, Farmland Public Library The Death of Vishnu by Manil Suri. The Reading Group: A Novel ( P.S. Instead of describing a young man's coming of age, this novel begins with the imminent demise of an old man in an apartment complex and his thoughts on the life he's lived. ) and was an Oprah ;s Book Club selection. Vishnu is a homeless man taking refuge in the first-floor landing of a middle-class apartment in Bombay. ) e- book - PerderThe Death of Vishnu by Manil Suri: Questions and reading group guide/ book club discussion guide,. Unleashes Balram's ruthlessness/frustration/anger quite forcefully.