The Death of Vishnu
by Manil Suri
USA: W.W. Norton & Company, Hdb ISBN 0393050424;
Canada: HarperCollins, Pbk ISBN 006000438X;
US: Bloomsbury, ISBN 0747552703;
Australia: Bloomsbury, Pbk ISBN 074755384X
This debut novel chronicles a community of
quarrelsome families living in a multi-level, segregated apartment
building-a metaphor for modern India, where the story is placed.
Vishnu, an old, ailing, and destitute man, who lives on the
landing, is witness to the apartment dwellers' daily lives.
With humor and compassion Suri renders Vishnu's death scene
as both Hindu mythology and as a Bollywood movie.
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