Description
On a Bombay apartment building’s staircase, an odd-job man named Vishnu lies dying, and the hours of his passing become a lens through which the lives around him come into focus. As residents move through their routines—love, ambition, resentment, faith, and fear—their stories braid together into a portrait of a city and a community bound by proximity and unseen longing. Blending a spiritual journey with intimate social observation, the novel explores mortality, belief, and the ways ordinary lives echo larger questions of meaning. With lyrical, observant prose and a quietly propulsive structure, Manil Suri’s debut offers an empathetic, thought-provoking meditation on what we leave behind and what we carry into the unknown.
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paperback
Perennial
Published Jan 1, 2002
301 pages
ISBN: 9780060004385
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Details
First Published
2001
Language
eng
Content Warnings
Content and trigger warnings for The Death of Vishnu by Manil Suri.