The Death of Vishnu, (Hardcover)

from miyurose

This was an unusual book, but good. Being only marginally familiar with Indian culture, there were things that seemed strange to me, like the whole concept of a man that lives on the stairs landing in exchange for running errands for people in the building. In a way, this book was a like a soap o...

from mana_tominaga

Chaos ensues around a beggar named Vishnu as he lies dying on the steps of a Mumbai apartment. Some negatives: the shift in tenses is not very compelling, and the characters are not very pleasant or affable. Indeed, many seem like fools. I enjoyed the delight in senses, and the lush descriptions ...

from debnance

On the steps of a Bombay apartmentVishnu, a servant, a handyman, lays dying. The story shifts fromVishnu's remembrances of the past to each of the apartment dwellersand then to Vishnu's dying thoughts. Vishnu is ignored by the othersas much as possible, but becomes an embarrassment as his dying g...

from dougwood57

Manil Suri's debut novel 'The Death of Vishnu' was inspired by a real man named Vishnu who lived and died on the steps in the apartment building in Bombay where Suri grew up. That's correct, my dear fellow Western reader 'lived and died on the steps'. Even the mildly attentive reader will immedia...

from KimHolland

There is so much going on in this novel on so many different levels that I immediately want to read it again. The juxtaposition of interior and exterior life and the human desire for connection and transcendance are common threads manifested in numerous characters who are often humorous and somet...