by Manil Suri · Ediciones B · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788466601108
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«La muerte de Vishnu» is a literary fiction novel by Manil Suri, published by Ediciones B in 2001 in paperback (295 pages, in Spanish).
The action takes place in Bombay and interweaves the lives of the residents of an apartment block. Through their stories, the novel explores love, death and spirituality, and paints a portrait of contemporary India with a lyrical style.
The translation of the original English The Death of Vishnu is by Mirta López Ollé. The Hindu Gods series begins with this novel and the edition belongs to the Afluentes collection.
The work is intended for readers of literary fiction and reading clubs interested in contemporary India and stories with a spiritual background.
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.
