by Manil Suri · Punto de Lectura · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788466305891
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«La muerte de Vishnu» is the novel by Manil Suri, published by Punto de Lectura in paperback (384 pages, in Spanish).
Vishnu, doorman of a Bombay building, lies unconscious on the staircase as he dies; no one wants to take responsibility for him. The novel then opens to the lives of the neighbors and the complex structure of India: caste system, religious tensions, Hindu myths, and the search for meaning in everyday life, with humor and tenderness.
The work was originally published as «The Death of Vishnu»; it is the first installment of the series The Hindu Gods. It was nominated for the Booker Prize and the PEN/Faulkner Award, and won the PEN/Robert W. Bingham Prize.
For readers of literary fiction and book clubs interested in contemporary India, its social system, and its spirituality.
Manil Suri is an Indian-American mathematician and writer of a trilogy of novels all named for Hindu gods. His first novel, The Death of Vishnu (2001), which was long-listed for the 2001 Booker Prize, short-listed for the 2002 PEN/Faulkner Award and won the Barnes & Noble Discover Prize that year. Since then, he has published two more novels, The Age of Shiva (2008) and The City of Devi (2013), completing the trilogy.
