The City of Devi - Softcover

Suri, Manil

Softcover

ISBN 10: 140883393X ISBN 13: 9781408833933

Publisher: Bloomsbury Paperbacks, 2014

Synopsis

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About this title

About the Author:

Manil Suri is the best-selling author of The Death of Vishnu, a finalist for the PEN/Faulkner Award, and The Age of Shiva. A native of Mumbai, he is a professor of mathematics at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County.

Review:

“The best sex comedy of the year about nuclear war between India and Pakistan...Even amid the wondrous variety of contemporary Indian fiction, Suri’s work stands apart, mingling comedy and death, eroticism and politics, godhood and Bollywood like no one else.”
- Ron Charles, Washington Post

“The City of Devi combines, in a magician's feat, the thrill of Bollywood with the pull of a thriller. Set in a city at the brink of the end, this is a fiercely imagined story of three souls haunted by a love that will change their most elemental ideas of identity. Manil Suri's bravest and most passionate book.”
- Kiran Desai

“The City of Devi is so exuberant and sexy, one may wish to purchase a prophylactic alongside it. When the world comes to an end, I will spend my last days in Mumbai clutching a copy of Manil Suri's dazzling epic.”
- Gary Shteyngart, author of Super Sad True Love Story and Absurdistan

“With comedic flashes and a plot that pulses forward, Suri’s tale solidifies the reputation he earned as a master storyteller with The Death of Vishnu and The Age of Shiva. Layered with themes that draw on Hindu mythology, this new work is equal parts near-apocalyptic drama and heartfelt Bollywood-esque love story.”
- Rupinder Gill, O Magazine

“Even amid the wondrous variety of contemporary Indian fiction, Suri’s work stands apart, mingling comedy and death, eroticism and politics, godhood and Bollywood like no one else.”
- Ron Charles, Washington Post

“Suri’s prose is reason enough to pick up the book, but what ultimately makes the reader turn the pages is the intertwined destinies of the three characters. In the end, love is all that matters, Suri seems to be saying.”
- Bharti Kirchner, Seattle Times

About this edition

• Publisher: Bloomsbury Paperbacks
• Publication date: 2014
• ISBN 10: 140883393X
• ISBN 13: 9781408833933
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 400