Manil Suri
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The Death of Vishnu: A Novel
Manil Suri
- 2002 PEN-faulkner finalist
- 2001 Kiriyama-Fiction finalist
- 2001 LATimes–1st Fiction finalist
- Score: 18.52
At the opening of this masterful debut novel, Vishnu lies dying on the staircase he inhabits while his neighbors the Pathaks and the Asranis argue over who will pay for an ambulance. As the action spirals up through the floors of the apartment building we are pulled into the drama of the residents’ lives: Mr. Jalal’s obsessive search for higher meaning; Vinod Taneja’s longing for the wife he has lost; the comic elopement of Kavita Asrani, who fancies herself the heroine of a Hindi movie. Suffused with Hindu mythology, this story of one apartment building becomes…
