TY  - BOOK
AU  - Suri,Manil
TI  - The death of Vishnu
SN  - 0747557616
AV  - PS3569.U725 D43 2001
PY  - 2001///
CY  - London
PB  - Bloomsbury
KW  - Vishnu (Hindu deity)
KW  - Fiction
KW  - Apartment houses
KW  - Family
KW  - Neighbors
KW  - East Indian culture
KW  - Social classes
KW  - Prejudices
KW  - Hindu-Muslim relations
KW  - Superstition
KW  - Contemporary life
KW  - Human condition
KW  - Bombay (India)
KW  - Apartment building
KW  - Domestic fiction
KW  - lcsh
KW  - Domestic
KW  - ssi
KW  - Psychological
KW  - Sociological
KW  - Magic realism
N2  - 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, readers ponder 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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