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Room in Bombay
A Memoir
Av Manil Suri
Inbunden, 2026
266 kr
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Indian American author Manil Suri grew up in a large crumbling apartment in Bombay (now Mumbai) which his parents, who were Hindu, shared with three Muslim families. Their single room, at times a refuge from the religious and territorial tensions pervading the apartment, was also a prison that held …
Big Bang of Numbers
How to Build the Universe Using Only Math
Av Manil Suri
Häftad, 2023
219 kr
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Our universe has multiple origin stories, from religious creation myths to the Big Bang of scientists. But if we leave those behind and start from nothing—no matter, no cosmos, not even empty space—could we create a universe using only math? Irreverent, richly illustrated, and boundlessly creative, …
Death of Vishnu
A Novel
Av Manil Suri
Inbunden, 2001
657 kr
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At the opening of this masterful debut novel, Vishnu lies dying on the staircase he inhabits while his neighbors the Pathaks and the Asranis argue over who will pay for an ambulance. As the action spirals up through the floors of the apartment building we are pulled into the drama of the residents’ …
Death of Vishnu
A Novel
Av Manil Suri
Häftad, 2012
386 kr
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In Manil Suri’s debut novel, Vishnu, the odd-job man, lies dying on the staircase of an apartment building while around him unfold the lives of its inhabitants: warring housewives, lovesick teenagers, a grieving widower. In a fevered state, Vishnu looks back on his love affair with the seductive …
City of Devi
A Novel
Av Manil Suri
Häftad, 2013
378 kr
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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. She is convinced that the fruit holds the key to …
Death of Vishnu
Av Manil Suri
Häftad, 2008
233 kr
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Vishnu, the odd-job man in a Bombay apartment block, lies dying on the staircase landing. Around him the lives of the apartment dwellers unfold - the warring housewives on the first floor, the lovesick teenagers on the second, and the widower, alone and quietly grieving at the top of the building. …
Age of Shiva
Av Manil Suri
Häftad, 2009
259 kr
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India, 1955. As the scars of Partition are beginning to heal, seventeen-year-old Meera sits enraptured: in the spotlight is Dev, singing a song so infused with passion that it arouses in her the first flush of erotic longing. But when Meera's reverie comes true, it does not lead to the fairy-tale …
The Big Bang of Numbers - How to Build the Universe Using Only Math
Av Manil Suri
Inbunden, 2022
312 kr
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Age of Shiva
Av Manil Suri
E-bok, 2009
267 kr
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India, 1955. As the scars of Partition are beginning to heal, seventeen-year-old Meera sits enraptured: in the spotlight is Dev, singing a song so infused with passion that it arouses in her the first flush of erotic longing. But when Meera''s reverie comes true, it does not lead to the fairy-tale …
Death of Vishnu
Av Manil Suri
E-bok, 2012
239 kr
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An enthralling virtuoso debut that eloquently captures the loves and losses of a dying man ''All the elements of great storytelling are here, the mystic transports of Ben Okri with the intimate charm of Arundhati Roy ... enchanting'' Sunday Tribune ''Beautifully captures with great tenderness and …
City of Devi
Av Manil Suri
E-bok, 2013
246 kr
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Armed only with a pomegranate, Sarita ventures into the empty streets of Mumbai, on the eve of its threatened nuclear annihilation. She is looking for her physicist husband Karun, who has been missing for over a fortnight. She is soon joined on her quest by Jaz - cocky, handsome, Muslim, gay, and …
City of Devi
Av Manil Suri
Häftad, 2014
246 kr
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A dystopia like no other, Manil Suri paints a vibrant portrait of an India on the brink of collapse, two figures travelling across the unknown in a world scarily close to the modern day'This vividly imagined book about personal and national destruction – and the possibilities of salvation – lingers …
Big Bang of Numbers
How to Build the Universe Using Only Maths
Av Manil Suri
Häftad, 2023
151 kr
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'Who knew numbers could be so charming? ... Suri takes us on a light-hearted journey all the way from nothing (zero) to infinity' Karen Joy Fowler, New York Times bestselling author of We Are All Completely Beside OurselvesOur universe has multiple origin stories, from religious creation myths to …
City of Devi
A Novel
Av Manil Suri
Inbunden, 2013
261 kr
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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. She is convinced that the fruit holds the key to …
Age of Shiva
A Novel
Av Manil Suri
Häftad, 2009
154 kr
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The Age of Shiva is at once a powerful story of a country in turmoil and an "unflinchingly honest" portrait of maternal love—"intricately interwoven with the ancient rites and myths" (Booklist) crucial to India's history. Meera, the narrator, is seventeen years old when she catches her first …
