Rochester Arts & Lectures

Manil Suri
Underwritten by Nancy and Alan Cameros
May 7, 2009

Internationally bestselling novelist Manil Suri writes lyrical, beautifully crafted stories about life in his native India. His debut novel, The Death of Vishnu, described social and religious tensions in an apartment building in contemporary Mumbai, and was published to critical acclaim. The Age of Shiva, the second book in his proposed trilogy, spans three decades, and is narrated by Meera Sawhney, a woman living in post-independence India. “In just a few pages, Suri immerses us in a world almost unimaginably foreign from our own, yet universally understandable,” praises Newsday. A true “Renaissance Man,” Suri is a mathematics professor at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County.

Author photo by: Jose Villarrubia

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