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The Age of Shiva

The Age of Shiva

by Manil Suri (Author)

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    Paperback 2009

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Synopsis

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 marriage she imagined. Meera has no choice but to obey her in-laws, tolerate Dev's drunken night-time fumblings, even observe the most arduous of Hindu fasts for his longevity. A move to Bombay seems at first like a fresh start, but soon that dream turns to ashes. It is only when their son is born that things change and Meera is ready to unleash the passion she has suppressed for so long.

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Format: Paperback
 Pages: 464
 Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Published: 02 Mar 2009
ISBN 10: 0747596395
ISBN 13: 9780747596394
Book Overview: The Death of Vishnu sold almost 100,000 copies in the UK alone and was longlisted for the Booker Prize. The Death of Vishnu was also an international bestseller and was translated into 22 languages. The Age of Shiva is a huge Indian novel in the tradition of A Fine Balance, The Glass Palace and A Suitable Boy.

Media Reviews
'Suri reveals an immense humanity and tenderness drawn by this compelling narrative, I read this marvelous book in one sitting' Kiran Desai 'Like Anna Karenina, The Age of Shiva is both intimate and epic a majestic story about love and its unexpected consequences' Amy Tan 'The Age of Shiva takes the raw, bright colours of the real India and softens them with a tender humanity borrowed from the mythology of a more ancient past' Independent on Sunday 'Captivating The Age of Shiva affirms Suri's position as a writer worth serious attention' New York Times
Author Bio
Manil Suri was born in Bombay in 1959 and is a professor of mathematics at the University of Maryland. His first novel, The Death of Vishnu, was longlisted for the Booker Prize, nominated for the PEN Faulkner Award, the LA Times Book Award and the WH Smith Book Award. It won the Barnes & Noble 2001 Discover Great New Writers Award for Fiction. Manil Suri was an inaugural winner of the PEN/Robert Bingham Fellowship for Writers.