The Death of Vishnu | The Death of Vishnu

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Author: Manil Suri
First Published: 2001
Type of Work: Novel
Time of Work: The late 1990’s
Setting: Bombay (Mumbai), India
Principal Characters: Vishnu, Mr. Pathak, Usha, Veeru, Mr. Asrani, Aruna, Kavita, Shyamu, Mr. Jalal, Arifa, Salim, Vinod Taneja, Sheetal, Padmini
Genres: Long fiction, Psychological fiction, Magical Realism
Subjects: Twentieth century, Death or dying, Gods or goddesses, India or East Indian people, Apartment houses, Hindus or Hinduism, 1990’s, Elopement
Locales: Bombay, India

For those who claim that the finest contemporary writers in English are ones whose mother tongue is another language, The Death of Vishnu provides spectacular confirmation of their theory. With this first novel, Manil Suri places himself in the company of Salman Rushdie, Vikram Seth, Anita Desai, Bapsi Sidhwa, Gita Mehta, Arundhati Roy, Ruth Prawer Jhabvala, and others in the great post-independence Indian and Pakistani literary flowering. In a beautifully structured effort (Suri is a professional mathematician), he links and overlays a half dozen tales, using the “pathetic”...

The Death of Vishnu | The Death of Vishnu

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