by Manil Suri · W. W. Norton & Company · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780393333633
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«The Age of Shiva» is the novel by Manil Suri, published by W. W. Norton & Company in paperback (464 pages, in English).
Meera is seventeen when she meets Dev, a singer she marries who fails to meet her expectations. The birth of her son Ashvin transforms Meera: her maternal love becomes absorbing and ambiguous. Meera's story intersects with the religious and political turmoil of India, with Shiva as a symbol of creation, destruction, and change.
Second novel in Manil Suri's «The Hindu Gods» series, following «The Death of Vishnu». The paperback edition dates from 2009.
Recommended for readers of literary fiction interested in India, family dramas, and the intersection of history and mythology.
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.
