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The Death of Vishnu A Novel
by Suri, Manil
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Fine in Fine dust jacket
- ISBN 10
- 0393050424
- ISBN 13
- 9780393050424
- Seller
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Amherst, Nova Scotia, Canada
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About This Item
New York: W. W. Norton & Company. Fine in Fine dust jacket. 2001. First Edition. Hardcover. 0393050424 . About new book, unmarked, in crisp barely rubbed DJ. Author's first novel; 0.79 x 9.45 x 6.3 Inches; 295 pages; 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' lives: Mr. Jalal's obsessive search for higher meaning; Vinod Taneja's longing for the wife he has lost; the comic elopement of Kavita Asrani, who fancies herself the heroine of a Hindi movie. Suffused with Hindu mythology, this story of one apartment building becomes a metaphor for the social and religious divisions of contemporary India, and Vishnu's ascent of the staircase parallels the soul's progress through the various stages of existence. As Vishnu closes in on the riddle of his own mortality, we wonder whether he might not be the god Vishnu, guardian not only of the fate of the building and its occupants, but of the entire universe. .
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- Bookseller
- B-Line Books (CA)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 22144
- Title
- The Death of Vishnu A Novel
- Author
- Suri, Manil
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine in Fine dust jacket
- Edition
- First Edition
- ISBN 10
- 0393050424
- ISBN 13
- 9780393050424
- Publisher
- W. W. Norton & Company
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 2001
- Keywords
- 0393050424, United States, World Literature, Literature & Fiction, Books, Contemporary, Popular Fiction, Literature & Fiction, Book Clubs, Specialty Stores
- Bookseller catalogs
- United States;
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About the Seller
B-Line Books
Biblio member since 2003
Amherst, Nova Scotia
About B-Line Books
B-Line Books is an internet business operating from my large home in Amherst, Nova Scotia. I am a retired English teacher with a lifetime of gathered books for sale. Presently, about 24,000 books in 90 categories are listed with an emphasis in the humanities. I look for books I am interested in myself, and feel that most of the inventory is of high quality. See for yourself.
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