Manil Suri is the author of The Death of Vishnu, The Age of Shiva, and the upcoming release and conclusion to the trilogy, The Birth of Brahma. Richly layered with themes from Hindu mythology, Suri’s novels surround the reader in mesmerizing stories of modern India. Originally from Bombay (now Mumbai), India, Suri came to the United States as a student at the age of twenty. He obtained his PhD in applied mathematics from Carnegie-Mellon University and is a tenured full professor in the Department of Mathematics and Statistics at the University of Maryland Baltimore County (UMBC). Suri was named by Time magazine as a “Person to Watch” in 2000, and he received a Guggenheim Fellowship for fiction in 2004.

Titles
  •  The Age of Shiva
  •  The Death of Vishnu

Awards and Honors
  •  Booker Prize long-list nomination, 2001
  •  Finalist for PEN/Faulkner Award, 2002
  •  Finalist for Hemingway Foundation/PEN Award for first fiction
  •  PEN/Robert Bingham Fellowship, 2002
  •  Guggenheim Fellowship, 2004

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Reviews

The Death of Vishnu
REVIEW BY AMY RYCE
Manil Suri, a mathematics professor at the University of Maryland, says that in writing, “each line should be as correct and necessary as an equation.” Mathematics is a world where the unnecessary step is a wasted one, and the incorrect step is doomed—a starkness one doesn't usually associate with fiction. In Suri's debut novel, The Death of Vishnu, the prose is flexible and elegant, but no narrative feels tedious; no unnecessary description taxes the modern, impatient mind. Suri writes with perfect efficiency, and he dreams most beautifully.(Read more at BookPage...)