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 Manil Suri, a professor of mathematics, has received national and international acclaim for his first novel, The Death of Vishnu. |
"Death" Sparks a Writer's Life |
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For UMBC mathematics professor Manil Suri,
it was a publishing debut that brought him attention in a host of
national newspapers and magazines, including The New Yorker, Time,
the Wall Street Journal, and the front page of The New York Times
Book Review. There was also a book tour that took him across the
United States and back to his native India, where the audience included
many members of his family. There are 19 editions of his book worldwide
that have appeared or will appear in the United States, the United
Kingdom, and in translation in a host of countries in Europe as well as
in India, Israel, Turkey, and Japan. All this hoopla was not about Suri's work in the numerical analysis  of
partial differential equations--his area of research expertise. It was
the publication of his first novel, The Death of Vishnu,
that set the critics ablaze. In a plot that weaves the stories of the
apartment dwellers who come upon Vishnu, the building's handyman, dying
on the stair landing, Suri constructs a microcosm of Indian society that
is both rich and comic. To read more, visit
www.manilsuri.com.
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