Manil Suri





Manil Suri

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July 01, 1959 in Mumbai, India

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Manil Suri is an Indian-American mathematician and writer, most notable for his first novel, The Death of Vishnu.

He attended the University of Bombay before moving to the United States, where he attended Carnegie Mellon University. He received a PHD in mathematics in 1983, and became a mathematics professor at the University of Maryland Baltimore County.

He still continues to hold this job even though he is more notable as a writer, and has risen through the academic ranks of the university.

Suri began writing short stories in the 1980s during his spare time, but few were published. In 1995 he began writing The Death of Vishnu, a novel about social and religious tensions in India taking place in an apartment building in contemporary Mumbai....more


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Average rating: 3.49 · 3,671 ratings · 447 reviews · 4 distinct works
The Death of Vishnu
3.55 of 5 stars 3.55 avg rating — 3,005 ratings — published 2000 — 26 editions
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The Age Of Shiva
3.21 of 5 stars 3.21 avg rating — 681 ratings — published 2008 — 16 editions
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Mother India
3.5 of 5 stars 3.50 avg rating — 4 ratings — published 2009 — 2 editions
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The City of Devi
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“What will happen to the flowers, now that you are gone? The earth that clings to the steps, the tulsi that begins to sprout. The colors that brighten the darkness of the stairs, the scents that perfume the air. Must I climb alone the petal-strewn trail of your descent?”
Manil Suri, The Death of Vishnu

“What did religion do to people, to provoke such obstinancy, such hysteria - how did it push people to the stage of torturing themselves and killing each other? ”
Manil Suri, The Death of Vishnu

“In mathematics, in place of characters, you have variables or unknowns. If I'm trying to plot a theorem, I try to imagine these variables interacting with each other. The boundary of their interaction is the theorem.”
Manil Suri

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