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.

'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

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.