The City of Devi: : Manil Suri: Bloomsbury Publishing

The City of Devi

Description

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 in search of his own lover. Together they traverse the surreal landscape of a dystopia rife with absurdity, and are inexorably drawn to the patron goddess Devi ma, the supposed saviour of the city. Groundbreaking and multilayered, The City of Devi is a fearlessly provocative tale of three individuals balancing on the sharp edge of fate.

Product details

Published	14 Mar 2013
Format	Ebook (Epub & Mobi)
Edition	1st
Extent	400
ISBN	9781408833926
Imprint	Bloomsbury Publishing
Publisher	Bloomsbury Publishing

Author

Manil Suri

Manil Suri was born in Bombay in 1959 and is a dis…

The City of Devi combines, in a magician's feat, the thrill of Bollywood with the pull of a thriller. Set in a city at the brink of the end, this is a fiercely imagined story of three souls haunted by a love that will change their most elemental ideas of identity. Manil Suri's bravest and most passionate book

Kiran Desai
Consuming, passionate, and ultimately poignant story

Nikita Lalwani, Guardian
An extravagant, and warm-hearted romantic comedy ... Arranged around various trinities ... Suri's novel is written in vivid, cornucopian prose

Sunday Times
A provocative fantasy from prestigious Indian author Suri

Attitude Magazine
This vividly imagined book about personal and national destruction – and the possibilities of salvation – lingers long after the final page, showing how it is loss that teaches the value of what is most loved

Anita Sethi, Independent
The City of Devi, which will surely cement his reputation as one of the most imaginative writers of our time ... Suri creates a mesmerising novel that is impossible to put down

Yorkshire Post