The City of Devi: A Novel
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| Rating | : | 4.52 (653 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0393346811 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 400 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2018-02-07 |
| Language | : | English |
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Yet Sarita is determined to cross the perilous city-in-ruins to search for her husband. From Booklist During their awkward courtship, physicist Karun tells statistician Sarita about an alternative vision of the Hindu triumvirate in which Brahman is replaced with the mother goddess Devi. This trinity just so happens to match the novels in Suri’s now completed trilogy: The Death of Vishnu (2001), The Age of Shiva (2008), and The City of Devi. --Donna Seaman . So frenetic, concussive, and flagrantly explicit is this on-target, apocalyptic urban satire, Suri can stand as the Tom Wolfe of Mumbai. By daringly yoking erotic longing with terrorism in a trinitarian tale of amped-up mythology and end-of-world chaos, Suri forges an in
Manil Suri is the best-selling author of The Death of Vishnu, a finalist for the PEN/Faulkner Award, and The Age of Shiva. A native of Mumbai, he is a professor of mathematics at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County.
Storyline great Amazon Customer There is a lot of sex in this book. I am not opposed to that, but the way this was presented in a way that highlighted the manipulation of one character by another was disturbing to me. Added to that, the degree to which this non caring, bullying type of sex made it hard to finish the book. Yet, the story line was brilliant and the ending pe. A Breathtaking Book about Love and Loss in Mumbai I started reviewing books when I first read, "The Death of Vishnu" by Manil Suri. In fact, that review is also one of the first on this blog. From there on I have read everything that he has written, not because of the fact stated above, but because I admire his writing and his thought process. Suri has the uncanny ability to make so much se. Not as compelling as I wanted I read a lot of books, and I like a variety of genres. But when I see a work of fiction that features the people and traditions of India plus has a gay character, I’m in. That’s why I chose Manil Suri’s The City of Devi. It did not disappoint, for it is rich with Indian lore, and the gay character Jaz is complex, funny, and
Dodging danger at every step, both he and Sarita are inexorably drawn to Devi ma, the patron goddess who has reputedly appeared in person to save her city. She is convinced that the fruit holds the key to reuniting her with her physicist husband, Karun, who has been mysteriously missing for more than a fortnight. From the author of The Death of Vishnu, "a big, pyrotechnic…ambitious…ingenious" (Wall Street Journal) novel. Mumbai has emptied under the threat of imminent nuclear annihilation; gangs of marauding Hindu and Muslim thugs rove the desolate streets; yet Sarita can think of only one thing: buying the last pomegranate that remains in perhaps the entire city. Searching for his own lover in the midst of this turmoil is Jazcocky, handsome, and glib. "The Jazter," as he calls himself, is Muslim, but his true religion has steadfastly been sex with men. What they find will alter their lives more fundamentally than any apocalypse to come.A wickedly comedic and fearlessly provocative portrayal of individuals balancing on the sharp edge of fate, The City of Devi brilliantly upends assumptions of politics, religion, and sex, and offers a terrifying yet exuberant glimpse of the end of the world.