by Manil Suri · Bloomsbury Publishing PLC · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780747592112
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«The Age of Shiva» is the literary fiction novel by Manil Suri, published by Bloomsbury Publishing PLC in paperback (464 pages, in English).
In 1950s India, Meera marries Dev, a singer seeking solace after being rejected by her sister. In Bombay, Dev's dream of Bollywood stardom fades and the marriage deteriorates; with the birth of their son Ashvin, Meera experiences a transformative maternal love, in a society still bearing the scars of Partition.
Second installment of Manil Suri's «The Hindu Gods» saga.
For readers of historical fiction and family drama, interested in 20th-century India.
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.
