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Watch manil suri introduce his new book, the city of devi. A complex parable of unification and division, based on the myth of the god shiva and his consort parvati, is subtly constructed in this ambitious successor to suris fine first novel, the death of vishnu 2001. Norton but the more we hear about their marriage, the more troubled karun sounds. Pdf joy luck club online free download read online free.

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He is the author of the novels the death of vishnu, the age of shiva and most recently, the city of devi. This is the conundrum facing sarita and the other characters in manil suris new novel, set in a futuristic mumbai on the brink of nuclear. Since then he has published two more novels, the age of shiva 2008 and the. Other readers will always be interested in your opinion of the books youve read. Use features like bookmarks, note taking and highlighting while reading the city of. 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. Armed only with a pomegranate, sarita ventures into the empty streets of mumbai, on the eve of its threatened nuclear annihilation.

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