Book description
Armed only with a pomegranate, Sarita ventures into the empty streets
of Mumbai, on the eve of its threatened nuclear annihilation. She is
looking for her physicist husband Karun, who has been missing for over a
fortnight. She is soon joined on her quest by Jaz - cocky, handsome,
Muslim, gay, and in search of his own lover. Together they traverse the
surreal landscape of a dystopia rife with absurdity, and are inexorably
drawn to the patron goddess Devi ma, the supposed saviour of the city.
Groundbreaking and multilayered,
The City of Devi
is a fearlessly provocative tale of three individuals balancing on the
sharp edge of fate. Exchanging sentimentality for a clear vision, Suri
reveals an immense humanity ... Drawn by this compelling narrative, I
read this marvellous book in one sitting Manil Suri was born in Bombay
in 1959 and is a professor of mathematics at the University of Maryland,
Baltimore County. He has written two novels, The Death of Vishnu
and The Age of Shiva
. His fiction has been translated into twenty-seven languages,
longlisted for the Booker Prize, shortlisted for the PEN/Faulkner Award,
LA Times
Book Award, PEN/Hemingway Award and the W H Smith Literary Award, and
has won the McKittrick Prize and the Barnes & Noble Discover Award.
He was named by Time
magazine as a Person to Watch in 2000. He lives in Maryland, USA.
