Book description
India, 1955. As the scars of Partition are beginning to heal,
seventeen-year-old Meera sits enraptured: in the spotlight is Dev,
singing a song so infused with passion that it arouses in her the first
flush of erotic longing. But when Meera's reverie comes true, it does
not lead to the fairy-tale marriage she imagined. Meera has no choice
but to obey her in-laws, tolerate Dev's drunken night-time fumblings,
even observe the most arduous of Hindu fasts for his longevity. A move
to Bombay seems at first like a fresh start, but soon that dream turns
to ashes. It is only when their son is born that things change and Meera
is ready to unleash the passion she has suppressed for so long. â Â
Captivating ...The Age of Shiva affirms Suri's position as a writer
worth serious attention'
Manil Suri was born in Bombay in 1959 and is a professor of
mathematics at the University of Maryland. His first novel, The
Death of Vishnu, was longlisted for the Booker Prize, nominated
for the PEN Faulkner Award, the LA Times Book Award and the WH
Smith Book Award. It won the Barnes & Noble 2001 Discover Great
New Writers Award for Fiction. Manil Suri was an inaugural
winner of the PEN/Robert Bingham Fellowship for Writers.
