About the Book: The City of Devi A dystopia like no other, Manil Sun i paints a vibrant portrait of an India on the brink of collapse, two figures travelling across the unknown in a world scarily close to the modern day. Armed only with a pomegranate, Santa ventures into the emptystreets of Mumbai, on the eve of its threatened nuclearannihilation. She is looking for her physicist husband Karun, whohas been missing for over a fortnight. She is soon joined on herquest by Jaz cocky, handsome, Muslim, gay, and in search of his ownlover. Together they traverse the surreal landscape of a dystopia rifewith absurdity, and are inexorably drawn to the patron goddess Devima, the supposed saviour of the city. Groundbreaking andmultilayered, The City of Devi is a fearlessly provocative tale ofthree individuals balancing on the sharp edge of fate. About the Author: Manil Suri Author Biography Manil Suri i was born in Bombay in 1959 and isa professor of mathematics at the University of Maryland, BaltimoreCounty. He has written two novels, The Death of Vishnu and The Ageof Shiva. His fiction has been translated into twenty-sevenlanguages, longlisted for the Booker Prize, shortlisted for thePEN/Faulkner Award, LA Times Book Award, PEN/Hemingway Award andthe W H Smith Literary Award, and has won the McKittrick Prize andthe Barnes and Noble Discover Award. He was named by Time magazineas a Person to Watch in 2000. He lives in Maryland, USA.